Chapter 28 - Alan: Advice for Parents
Alan speaks to parents of children who have been molested, "He or she is going to need a lot of help. You are going to need a lot of help. And at the same time, you are going to have to be a big part of the help that your child receives. there isn't much that you alone can do for your child because you don't know what he or she has been through. So the priorities right now should be that boy or girl, while the memories are very, very fresh and the pain is very, very real, you get the child to someone that she or he can relate to so that he or she can let out all that has happened. page 226, para. 3.
Amy speaks to parents of sexually dysfunctional children (children who may themselves become child perpetrators of younger children), "A mild level of sexual dysfunction may result from witnessing sexual acts on screen or in real life. Seeing these acts may have been extremely upsetting to him, and he may feel too guilty to talk about it with his parents. He is left alone to deal with his feelings of uneasiness and lack of knowledge about what he saw. These feelings may cause him to behave in sexually aggressive ways toward girls and women in his environment for no apparent reason. He may poke adults buttocks or pull on their breasts. He may engage in sexualized play with his toys or with his body. While it is typical for a child or an adolescent to be extremely curious about his own body, as well as others, it is not normal for a youngster to show an interest that is aggressively or obsessively expressed." page 227, para 3.
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