How to Teach Your Child To Be Street Smart About Sexual Predators The news of children as young as five (and scarily younger) being sexually assaulted leaves me cold. But
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Many children experience bullying and sadly, this can start at a very young age. Bullying is everywhere and no matter how hard you try to prevent it, it still could
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The death of a child is always a tragedy, but it seems even more so when the individual behind the death is someone the child should be able to trust:
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I’ve received quite a few messages of support and sad stories from parents, foster parents and concerned members of the public about the sheer number of children abused, tortured and
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Warning: This article contains explicit language and graphic details. A predator by definition is an animal that hunts, kills and preys on others. A paedophile is an adult who is sexually attracted
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12 Year Old Kaitlyn Yozviak from Macon in Georgia died after she developed anaemia caused by a severe head lice infestation left untreated for years. The little girl suffered a
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If you were to ask me if I believed in the death penalty before I had children, it would have been an all out NO! No one deserves to die.
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In 2012, a little boy died in tragic circumstances in Melbourne. A puzzling and heart wrenching death that could have been avoided and prevented if the mother had sought help
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For years, books like Cinderella and Snow White have portrayed stepmothers as evil, jealous, and unhinged. They marry into the family then suddenly, go from sweet and warm to wicked
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Australia’s longest-running month-long fundraising challenge is back, with a target set to help thousands of disadvantaged youth nationwide. In its 12-year history, febfast has reached out to tens of thousands
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For decades now, parents have been preaching ‘stranger danger’ to a generation of children, while at the same time ignoring the reality right in front of them. Strangers aren’t really the
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There are very few things in the world more deplorable than abducting an innocent child. Fortunately, there are several accounts of children surviving their abductions. TRIGGER WARNING: These stories recount
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**Please note that content in this article may be distressing for some readers** A child protection expert has revealed that a “large portion” of child sexual abuse victims in Australia
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An international journal has argued that it is time for Australia to ban all corporal punishment of children. The International Journal of Child Rights states the Australian Government had “not
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A 65-year-old stepmother has been jailed for abusing three girls in her care in a Cinderella-like manner. Caroline Sharp, from the UK, who tormented three girls — one is her biological
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In Australia there aren’t too many groups more vulnerable than the children in our state care systems, yet they are being shockingly failed by the very system that is supposed
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Right at this moment Cardinal George Pell is sitting in a fancy hotel room, on the phone with Australia. He’s giving his long-awaited testimony to the Royal Commission into Institutional
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Most of the time, in our society, the scales of justice do what they’re supposed to do: they adequately punish criminals for their misdeeds, and leave us feeling just a
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There wasn’t a family in Australia that didn’t mourn for the unidentified little girl found in a suitcase on a remote highway in South Australia earlier this year. The mystery
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As yet another ‘house of horrors’ victim emerges from the mass of gloomy news stories that you’ll read today, we think it’s time to take stock. Something has changed in
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