Emancipation Nation
Emancipation Nation
Celia Williamson, PhD
Episode 29: Parenting and Human Trafficking Prevention
21 minutes Posted Jan 28, 2020 at 6:00 am.
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While sex traffickers more commonly manipulate youth into the commercial sex trade, more and more sensationalized accounts of child abduction into the sex trade have cropped up on Facebook and in news reports. How do we educate parents so that they are aware of all of the ways sex trafficking occurs, particularly those most common ways. And how do we help parents resolve the ever present conflict between being your child's "friend" vs being your child's "parent"? Youth tell trusted others about what is truly happening in their lives. How does a parent become one of those trusted others?