Protecting our Kids from Sexual Exploitation

Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care

Foster youth or children who have been in the foster care system make up over 80% of children being sexually exploited. What can you do to prevent this from happening to your child? We talk with Audrey Morrissey, Co-Executive Director of My Life My Choice, a survivor-led nonprofit fighting sexual exploitation of youth.
In this episode, we cover:

• What are some of the different forms that sexual exploitation can take?
• What is included in sexual trafficking?
• Internet exploitation.
• How does grooming take place.
• Are foster children disproportionately represented in the sexually exploited population?
• Are children who have experienced trauma over represented?
• Seeking love and connection.
• Sexual exploit of boys?
• What can parents do to protect their children from sexual exploitation?
• What resources are available to parents and young people?

This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:

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