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Welcome to page 2 as we continue to discuss the absolute necessity of all parents everywhere in the world to keep a very close watch over your children's well-being.  The main topic here is to keep a close watch in regard to sexual predator's and their schemes against your children.  

Good and loving parents take the time to set their children down and explain to them; "Never let anyone, not even me, GOD forbid, touch your private area.  If someone ever does, you come to me and tell me right away.  Right?  Ok?  Good."  This is an important thing to do, but it does not guarantee protection for your children from a sexual attack.

Often a child molester scares and frightens a child after molesting them with such words as; "Don't tell anyone what we did here, ever!  If you tell your parents, I will have to kill both of them and you too.  Maybe a bomb will blow up your entire family!"  Since a child is very vulnerable to such types of threats, a predator can continue to sexually molest them time and again.  And even if a child is not threatened by their attacker, it is not uncommon for them to be so embarrassed or ashamed that they would rather continue to face the sexual abuse then to tell anyone about it, especially their parents.  Sexual perverts hide from detection by relaying upon children's emotions and insecurities a great deal of the time.

There exists in a child's mind the sure shock of being touching inappropriately.  For example, a child trusts close family members without hesitation, or a religious leader or teacher.  In a child's mind; "Surely these are good people, they love me and only want to help me."  Sadly, this is not be the case for a great many children.  

Several people have told me that they had let their child stay overnight at a friend's house that they knew very well.  These same parents had no idea that there was an older brother at home, or that a cousin was visiting during that particular time, or the molestation that took place that night they did not know anything about until many years later.

There is a trend that has become popular today by parents that a keep a close watch over their children - if there is to be a sleep over, their child's friend stays at their house under the protection of the parents.  This attitude demonstrates an understanding that a parent never knows the well-being of their child once they leave the home.