Category: Digital abuse
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Online Grooming & Platform Accountability: What Needs to Change
Online grooming—where predators manipulate children through digital platforms—has become a growing threat, raising urgent questions about the accountability of the very platforms that enable this abuse. This conversation is both timely and critical, especially in light of the following alarming statistics. Raising public awareness about online grooming and platform responsibility empowers parents, educators, and children…
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Parental Phubbing: How Ignoring Kids Impacts Their Development
Portmanteaus can be odd little things—word mashups that sometimes make us smile and sometimes make us think. One of the more recent and revealing ones is phubbing, short for “phone snubbing.” It describes the act of ignoring someone in favor of your phone. When parents do this to their children, it’s called parental phubbing—and it’s…
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Online Grooming: A Must Read for Parents
Learn about Online Grooming and how you can protect your family against it.