We’ve already discussed in previous blog posts what grooming looks like and how challenging it is to identify. But now we’re going to take this information one step further and
If you’ve stumbled across this post because you’ve been asking yourself ‘Is my child being groomed?’ then hopefully by the end of this article you’ll be more certain of your
When you hear the phrase ‘grooming children,’ do you think of grooming teenagers as well? Most people don’t. And that gives society a huge problem when it comes to grooming
Consent is a topic that I feel is so often misunderstood when it comes to grooming and sexual violence. So, for this blog post, I want to focus on exactly
Grooming isn’t always, if ever, obvious. After all, if the grooming process were easy to spot, we’d stop it before abuse could happen. The trouble with spotting the signs of
Often, when someone is being groomed, it is their friends that notice first. Often, these friends will become suspicious and they might try and raise their concerns with their friend
Grooming older teens is a problem that doesn’t seem to get as much conversation as the grooming and abuse of younger children. So often, we discuss child protection, and we
If you go to Google, you’ll find a tonne of information about the signs of grooming. But what you might not immediately find is information about the impact of grooming.
Sexual grooming is a manipulative and deceptive process where an offender builds trust with a victim with the aim of exploiting or abusing them. This victim is often a child
If you want the short answer to this question, then it’s a simple ‘no’ – children and teens can’t spot the signs of child grooming. If adults, with all of
Grooming is a manipulative process designed to gain the trust of a person to exploit and abuse them. And the grooming behaviours that groomers use often go unnoticed until it
Grooming is a predatory process that has evolved significantly over the years. While grooming is often discussed in the context of child abuse, it’s important to understand that it can
I’m going to be blunt here. If adults could spot the signs of grooming, there wouldn’t be 150 different online apps used to groom children. Why? Because we’d have identified