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Protecting Children From Predators

 
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  • How can I teach my child to avoid lures?
  • What can I do to protect my child from a predator abduction?
  • What should I teach my child about predator abductions?
  • What should I teach my child to do in case he is ever lost, alone or in danger?
  • What safety tips can I teach my child before he goes to an amusement park?
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  2. Why was the KlaasKids foundation created? 
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 Child Abductions 
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  2. How often are children abducted? 
  3. Who are the primary perpetrators of child abductions? 
  4. How can my child prevent his own abduction? 
  5. What can I do to help the return of my child in case he is ever abducted? 
  6. What is a "child identification kit"? 
  7. Where can I find child identification kits? 
 Family Abductions 
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  2. What is a "family abduction"? 
  3. Who is at the greatest risk of a family abduction? 
  4. What are the signs that my child is at risk for a family abduction? 
  5. How do I protect my child from a family abduction? 
  6. What do I do if my child has been abducted by a family member? 
 Predator Abductions 
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  2. Why should the term "stranger abduction" be changed to "predator abduction"? 
  3. Should I teach my child "stranger danger"? 
  4. Who is at the greatest risk of a "predator abduction"? 
  5. What are common patterns of a predator abduction? 
  6. What is a child predator "lure"? 
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  3. Why was the AMBER Alert System created? 
  4. Is the AMBER Alert System effective? 
  5. How can the AMBER Alert System become more effective? 
  6. How can I help law enforcement with the AMBER Alert? 
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Protecting Children From Predators

How can I teach my child to avoid lures?

You should tell your child that adults that they don't know and who have no supervisory capacity over them should be avoided. I think this is probably what you should tell your kids about first. Also that they shouldn't go with somebody, and that they don't do something without permission from your parents first. Which is why I keep reiterating that first rule of trying to tell parents and children. That children should not go any place without permission from the primary caregiver.

What can I do to protect my child from a predator abduction?

Probably one of the best things a parent can do, in their own environment, is, number one: to know their neighborhood. To show their children the safest places to play, and areas to avoid, like allies and dark stairwells. Show them the safest routes to and from school. Ensure that they don't make that trip by themselves. It's also a very good idea to know your childrens' friends, know their contact information, and be able to get a hold of them if you don't know where your child is, or for whatever reason. Taking it a step up from there, I think it's very important, and probably any cop in America will tell you, one of the best crime fighting tools there is, is a well run neighborhood watch program. Which is really nothing more than neighbors, however you want to define that term, organizing to look out for each other's property, and to look out for each other's children, so that they are able to report suspicious individuals and suspicious activities in whatever that neighborhood is, as you define it.

What should I teach my child about predator abductions?

What should I teach my child to do in case he is ever lost, alone or in danger?

That again brings us back to the idea of stranger danger, because this is exactly where a stranger can help a child in a difficult situation. If you are in the mall you should tell your children to go to one of the security officers, or alternatively go into one of the stores and those people will direct them back to their parents. If they're in an amusement park, they can do the same thing. They can go to one of the concessions at the amusement park and they will be directed back to their caregiver. So, that is it that they should do in this situation. Well, number one is keep their head. Number two, ask somebody in their official capacity for assistance And number three, if they have a cell phone of their own, the easiest thing to do would be to call whoever it is you are trying to reunite with and that could be a quicker and more effective method.

What safety tips can I teach my child before he goes to an amusement park?

If you take a child to an amusement park, probably one of the first things you should do there is determine a safe location, and so that if the child does become separated you will have a point where you can meet up very quickly. The one stipulation I would put on all of this would be carnivals. Those are not good environments for children to be left behind in. I mean, a carnival is a pretty shady location to begin with, and I think parents should double their efforts to make sure their kids stay with them in those kinds of "carny" enviroments.

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