Do You Ask For CONSENT From Your Child?
If you’re a parent, do you ask for consent from your pre-teen child before hugging them, bathing them, or changing their clothes? Do you ask for consent from your younger sibling merely to hug them? These questions might be baffling or even throw a person off-guard, but they have an immensely comprehensible answer. In India, 5 children are sexually abused every hour. Victims of these heinous crimes are rendered with nothing but persistent impressions of trauma, which has a tremendous chance of projecting itself in unhealthy or even self-destructive ways at times, in adulthood. Children possess an undeveloped, impressionable mind. Consequently, their trauma goes unprocessed and they end up internalizing those emotions. It is of utmost importance to equip children with the correct knowledge regarding the subject of Child Sexual Abuse (whether it’s about private body parts, consent, or safe and unsafe touch), these habits must be inculcated gradually in every child and adult’s life. We ex...