Are our girls safe on American Soil?
What are the effects?
The purpose of this study was to examine racial/ethnic disparities in being forced to have sexual intercourse against one’s will, and the effect of substance use on these disparities.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3415834/
What can we do?
What power as parents, grandparents and caregivers do we have to protect our children? Control, protection is an illusion. We are powerless to protect our child from harm however we are not helpless. We can empower our children. We can parent from a base that empowers our girls to protect themselves.
Gavin deBecker says, in his book the Gift of Fear, that a man’s greatest fear is being laughed at and a woman’s greatest fear is being killed. That alone should tell us that women do not feel safe in our society.
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The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence By Gavin de Becker
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Together we can make changes in our lives that impact the lives of our children.
Dr. Mary Kay Keller
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