HOW TO TALK ABOUT SEX TO CHILDREN? & WHY SHOULD YOU TALK ABOUT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE ??? –
- Oct 16, 2014
- 2 min read
Though I said a series on myths on psychology would be happening this month, i couldn’t help myself but share this..
THE HOW:-
This is a pretty good video on how to tell you children, rather educate them about good touch and bad touch.
THE NEED:-
India saw an increase of 336% of child rape cases from 2001 (2,113 cases) to 2011 (7,112 cases). These are only the tip of the iceberg as the large majority of the cases of child rape are NOT REPORTED to the police while children regularly become victims of other forms of sexual assault too.(1)
In order to examine the incidence of sexual abuse among child respondents, a study was conducted in 2007 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, on 12,447 children belonging to the five different categories including children in family environment, children in schools, children in institutions, children at work and street children.
Out of the total child respondents, 53.22% reported having faced one or more forms of sexual abuse that included severe and other forms. Among them 52.94% were boys and 47.06% girls. (2).
Also another alarming statistics is India is among the top 5 countries (2nd rank) with regard to rates of REPORTED incidents of child sexual abuse (CSA) (3)
This might sound scary to all of you parents and non parents. But these are the facts and someday you will have to face it. Instead of putting your child or a child you know of, through hell; just cause you are embarrassed (or you may have a million other reasons, NONE ACTUALLY IMPORTANT), why can’t we prevent it? And children are wonderful, their hearts are pure, hence they do not perceive this to be an embarrassing topic like us adults. On the contrary they are very receptive to such information and learn it pretty quickly!!
Confession-
I have educated quite a few children myself, in the beginning I had the jitters and the butterflies in my stomach, but my doubts and embarrassment left me after about 5 seconds into the conversation and never came back again!! Children do ask questions like how they showed in the video, and once we are prepared we can answer them quite well!
So all i have to say ( to parents, schools, and anyone who cares) is this-
Keep your children safe, Do not let your embarrassment strip them of their childhood.
References-
P.S. to keep it short and apt to my target readers, I have primarily focused on references wrt my country of origin,this doesn’t mean this happens only in India. The last reference talks about other countries as well. If need be I can direct you to studies in other countries.
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