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New research on grooming behaviors can tell us what high-risk behaviors we ought to look for when an adult interacts with children.

How does the U.S., and 12 states in particular, stack up against other countries on child sexual abuse prevention and intervention?

Reimagining the child welfare system of the future. This episode originally aired on July 29, 2021.

What do we really know about violence against children—and what would it mean if thousands of organizations banded together to demand changes to better support families and protect children?

What’s normal sexual behavior in youth, and how do we identify, treat, and prevent problematic behaviors?

Five years ago, a federal commission came up with 114 recommendations to reduce child abuse fatalities, and now we’re taking stock to see what’s changed—or hasn’t changed—since then.

Reimagining the child welfare system of the future.

Jenna Quinn, a survivor of child sexual abuse who became a champion of abuse prevention public policy, joins us to discuss how centering survivors’ experiences can affect policy and how

Paul DiLorenzo asks how we might interrupt the cycle of generational abuse by stopping the cycle of chronic neglect—and what prevents us from doing this right now?

What if instead of focusing exclusively on victims and parents for child sexual abuse prevention, we turned to the source of the problem: the person at risk of sexually abusing