A Key Challenge.

A key challenge … is how to distinguish early grooming behaviours from normal care-giving behaviours, and thus how to detect and intervene in CSA before the problem is fully established.

Smallbone, Stephen; Marshall, William L.; Wortley, Richard. Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Evidence, Policy and Practice (Crime Science Series)

The majority of children who are abused suffer it at the hands of a family member.

How do children and young people learn to distinguish between ‘grooming behavours’ and ‘normal care-giving behavious’?

Where do children and young people witness and experience ‘normal care-giving behaviours’ that do not lead to sexual or other intimacy?

Schools.