Sexual abuse is not always violent. more often than not, it is seduction. That's why children don't tell. This is a reality. We must be very careful what we impress on children's minds, or they'll be confused as to who's really showing love.

  I originally wrote this as a poem, but due to Linda Law's short stores, I thought it best posted here.  Awareness is needed.  Single parents, alcoholic parents, women in domestic abuse situations and passive mothers, are the targets of predators.  They know children with these type of parents are blind to their designs on their children.

  These children are often emotionally abandoned, left to figure out life on their own.  They need affection and assurences that are not available in the home.  Thus, they become prime prey for sexual predators.  Often, the predator in either in the home, or very close to the family, giving him access to the child.  Soemtimes threats are used, sometimes violence.  But mostly it's seduction.  Preying on the child's lack of emotional support is the most prominent way a pedophile gains the childs trust. 

  People often wonder how some abuse can go on for long periods of time:  This is why.  The child may sense what is happening is  wrong, but if there is no pain, it leaves the child unsure of how to handle this, or why it's wrong.  Emotionally innocent and ignorant  how to defend themselves against the sexual advances and demands of an adult.   

Then there is the element of guilt that a child feels because they can't stop the abuse.  The predator always using this as a mental tool to continue the abuse.  The longer it goes on, the guiltier the child feels.  They feel responsible for what is happening to them, because the offender tells them they should have stopped it long ago, now it's too late, no one will believe them, and because they "let it" go on so long, they are bad.  They even tell the child that it's how adult show love to children.   Their is alot of emotional manipulation.   Alot of emotional seduction.  Please read, if you have the foritude for it.  Don't be squimish, WE NEED TO BE  AWARE!
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