As I was scanning my Facebook posts today one of my friends, who is a new parent, posted that he didn’t wasn’t told how much it would affect you to hear stories of children being harmed after you have a child. He said it more elquoently than that but you get the picture.

I know exactly what he is feeling. I became a parent after a decade of reporting on crime. It always upset me to hear that a child had been hurt, but since my child has been born it has been so much harder to hear. We have to be vigilant and use all of the tools at our disposal to keep our kids safe offline and online.