“Much of the work that happens is trying to get little kids to keep themselves safe, but that’s really assigning six-year-olds a lot of responsibility… When it comes to kids perpetrating harm is we stop seeing them as kids. We start seeing them as monsters or pedophiles or adults. When kids engage in sexual inappropriate behavior, I think we sort of reactively start to think of them as more mature because the behavior involves sex. That’s one real mistake that we make, is we automatically start to view them as adults… One problem is we don't give boys or girls direct information on what you are allowed to do, and there's actually a lot of low-hanging fruit there. Younger adolescents account for a large percentage of child abuse. It's not because they're pedophiles or psychopathic monsters. They just don't know the rules.”
Also talks about stigma, and how it prevents people from seeking help.
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