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How can you give them accurate, age-appropriate information about sex that will protect them from predators and help them to live healthy, loving, satisfying lives? I wrote The Sex-Wise Parent because I want parents to feel empowered with knowledge and facts. There's a lot you can do—from preschool years through young adulthood. I hope you'll buy the book. And I hope you'll come back to this site frequently for news and tips about sexual health and safety. We also welcome and address the questions faced by educators, policy, and law enforcement professionals committed to these concerns. You'll also find updates about my appearances and workshops with parents and professionals across America discussing my book, The Sex Wise Parent. You can order a copy of the book online. |
Dr. Rosenzweig with Voice America host Chris Efessiou (Dec. 6th show)
Dr. Rosenzweig discusses Summer Camp Safety on Central l PA Today
Q&A with the New Jersey Star Ledger on talking to kids about sex
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12
2013
The benefit of Paterno’s hindsight: lessons for parents!
If you’ve been paying attention to the child sex-abuse scandal at Penn State, you know that a report commissioned by Joe Paterno’s family calls into question several elements of the Louis Freeh report of last year that implicated Paterno in failing to do anything about Sandusky. Paterno’s widow, Sue, went on Katie Couric’s television show Monday and when Couric asked her reaction to Joe’s statement that “he wished he’d done more” Sue Paterno quickly reminded […]
8
2013
What can you do for Child Abuse Prevention Month? Here are 10 (PLUS!) good ideas to get started!
April is designated as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the United States, and it serves as a reminder that everyone can help keep all children safe and healthy. Plan now and be part of this national effort on behalf of kids and parents! Find your state’s chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America and ask how you can help in your community. Invite an expert speaker to your congregation or kids’ school. Can’t find one? E-mail me […]
31
2013
Parents: Simple Rules for Raising a Sexually Safe and Healthy Child
We’ve got provide to parents with tools to support their children to grow up to be sexually safe and healthy! Focusing solely on ‘sex abuse prevention’ ignores love and joy. Rosenzweigs Rules is a good place to start!
25
2013
Forgive, but don’t forget
If I ever doubted the number of people who were sexually abused as a child, my current work promoting my book, The Sex-Wise Parent has brought me right back to sad reality. I have yet to leave an event without at least one survivor sharing their story. Many have a lesson that I feel compelled to share and last week’s lesson was about the double edged sword of forgiveness. After one event a woman approached […]
20
2012
Give the gift of knowledge to support your childs sexual health and safety
A few weeks ago I heard Sherri Sheppard, one of the hosts on The View, wondering out loud what to tell her very young son who had apparently just discovered that rubbing lotion on his genitals felt good. What an opportunity this presented! Parents can use age-appropriate words to tell a child that their genitals are special places that bring special feelings. These special feelings are for the child to have all by him/herself, and […]
16
2012
Ever hear of an ephebophile? They are just like pedophiles, except they’re after teens!
The story of Brittni Colleps, a Texas school teacher charged with having sex with four students at her home, is a sickening example of a loss of discipline in the people and institutions to whom we entrust our children. As upsetting as it is, this case can give parents the opportunity and motivation to make sure that their schools, and their children, are safe from type of sexual predator. And it is predation – even […]
15
2012
Sex abuse in school?
As the back to school transition eases into a comfortable routine, this is a good time to consider a finding published in a report by the U.S. Department of Education: Various studies show that as many as 5 percent of kids report a sexual contact with a school employee sometime during their school experience. Section 5414 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended required a study of sexual abuse in U.S. […]
3
2012
The Penn State endowment MUST create ‘real and permanent good’!
What’s the highest and best use of the fines being levied against Penn State? Child serving agencies in the United States are in a tizzy anticipating the $60 million endowment from the Penn State fines. Public child welfare systems are notoriously underfunded in almost every state without a federal consent decree specifying how much the state must spend. Sadly, there is not a single state in this country with a child abuse prevention system serving […]
1
2012
Kids, books and sex: Thoughts for a sex-wise parent!
I remember the first time I was swept away by a book. I was reading Gone with the Wind as a young teen, and noon became dinner time in what seemed like 5 minutes. I still recall my delight at finally understanding why people said that reading could be magic; I felt like a grown up secret had been revealed to me when I experienced the sense of being transported through time and by developing […]
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