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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Anna Davis

Parents must have 'uncomfortable' conversations with children about sex to drive down abuse by young people

Parents must have “uncomfortable conversations” with their children about sex, experts have urged, amid concerns about a rise in reports of child sexual abuse by under 18s.

Deana Puccio, a former sex crimes prosecutor from New York who now works with schools in London, said issues such as consent, porn, respect and empathy should become part of parents’ everyday conversations with young people so they are no longer seen as taboo.

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