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Parenting boys - A Mother's perspective

While meeting various parents I asked parents about their greatest fears about their kids. Without fail, parents of girls are worried about sexual assault and what they can do to stop their daughter from becoming a victim. And without fail, what I do NOT hear is parents of boys worrying about what they can do to prevent their sons from being the cause for the same. I am also having a 9 years old daughter and was trying hard to find how to teach our boys to be refrained from such type of happening. Then I came across to a lady who shared her experience of raising her 2 boy kids and I would share the same for you people who are reading here. For every girl that is sexually assaulted by a male intimate partner, there is a male intimate partner perpetrating that crime. No one wants to think that their son could be that person, hence no one is talking about how we can help our boys not become that person but she wanted to. She wanted to keep her name unrevealed because she th