Sexual Harassment: Warning Signs
Child molestation or sexual assault is a source of panic for mothers, especially when the child begins to mix with strangers in school, sports clubs or any other social activity.
The question remains: How do I protect my child from that danger? How do I discover its occurrence and treatment?
Child's breath or courage? The child is not afraid to disclose what he has suffered, especially if the aggressor is a relative, a friend of the family, or his or her carers.
Behavioral symptoms
- Withdrawal of children from daily or normal activities without clear justification.
- Changes in behavior such as nervousness, extreme anger or excessive activity.
- Pay attention to his activity and school performance, especially if repeated complaint from his teachers.
- If the child shows symptoms of depression, from the anxiety or crying unusual and without reason.
- Sudden self-confidence.
- The desire for frequent absence from school or riding the edge of school.
- Escaping from school activities, and not going back.
- Frequent attempts to escape, and sometimes suicide.
Sudden rebel behavior.
- Sexual behavior or knowledge that is not commensurate with his age and environment.
- If you notice sexual behavior from your child.
- Neglect of personal hygiene.
- Taking money or things belonging to others without permission.
The corresponding behaviors may not meet together, depending on the individual who is the aggressor of the child, the nature of the assault and how often it is repeated.
Physical signs of sexual assault
- Unjustifiable injuries such as wounds, burns, and fractures.
- Injuries not commensurate with the child's justification or story.
Medical problems for no apparent reason.
- Sexual infection, disease or wounds in the genital organs of the child.
- Blood symptoms on the baby's underwear.
Difficulty walking, sitting or complaining of genital pain.
Psychological signs
- Delayed development and emotional reactions.
- Self-respect clothing.
- Complaint of headache or head or abdomen pain without medical reason.
- Do things in the past.
- Significant increase or decrease in weight, loss of appetite or excessive eating.
- Hide food to him later.
- Clear indifference.
How do you deal with the incident?
If you notice any of the pre-tags:
- To absorb the crisis and to be calm and patient.
- Do not blame the child.
- Give the child sufficient respect and self-confidence.
- Do not feed him a sense of victimization so as not to succumb to the crisis.
- I feel the child contain and protection.
- Listen to the child without being questioned or investigated, and not exercised.
- The child must be assured of punishment for the aggressor, where the degree of his or her relationship to the child or the family has not been.
- Cry on his face.
- Visit the doctor immediately for delay and not repeated.
Sexual Harassment
What are the methods of prevention?
It may be possible to take care of a normal treatment.
- Teach your child that his body belongs to him only, but tell me.
- Tell your child that sensitive areas are not allowed to be touched, which are not shameful areas, but strangers are not allowed to approach any degree of closeness, and if someone touches it immediately check the mother, reassuring the child with them will not be punished.
- If you have special needs, you should be prepared to qualify.
- Teach your child not to be in short isolation places.
- Exercise confidence in your child, do not fear the aggressor and start shouting and rejecting and announce it immediately.
- Pay attention to teaching your child not to respond to the temptations of strangers with candy or fondling and praise or even threats.
- Your child is no longer alone with strangers or sleeping with relatives and friends
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