Children are recruited in to gangs as early as age 7 or 8, and the gang quickly becomes a child's home. The gang is always there for the child, and once in a gang, it becomes a lifetime commitment. There is usually one way out, only one way, in a wooden box.

Many sex offenders who will abuse a child are either a well-known family friend or a direct relative of the victim. This means the offender is someone the child already knows and trusts and NOT a stranger hiding in the bushes. So how do you keep your child safe?

Are authorities close to solving the disappearance of Etan Patz? Learn how new developments in forensic science may help determine what happened to the six year old boy who disappeared from Manhattan's SOHO district May 25, 1979.

Etan Patz is one of the first children to bring strong focus to the cause of missing children, and the search for Etan Patzs never stopped, due mostly to the dedication of Etan’s father, Stanley Patz. Do you know anything about this missing child?

Have you talked to your children about how to escape a child predator? Talking to a child about how to respond to an emergency situation will help them know exactly what to do if they are faced with a similar situation.

Having emergency contact names and numbers on file means a parent or other safe adult can be contacted should your child need to be picked up from school due to injury, illness, or does not show up for school.

If a child is allowed unlimited access to the internet and the parent does not teach him or her what is out there he or she will find the dark side without your help. Learn about the eBlaster monitoring software to protect your children

A sex offender registry is a current list of sex offenders, and every state has one. the information may vary by state. Find out how your state compares to other states.

Now there is Dru’s Law, a law that needs convicted child molesters to register on a national Internet database. If they fail to register, they face a felony charge for failing to update their location or address.

Pedophilia was first used by an Austro-German psychiatrist Dr. Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing. Some believe pedophilia is a mental illness. Read this article to learn more about the history of pedophilia.