Behaviors to Watch Out for When Adults are with Children

Relationships with children

• Turns to a child for emotional or physical comfort by sharing personal or private information or activities, normally shared with adults?
• Has secret interactions with teens or children (e.g. games, sharing drugs, alcohol, or sexual material) or spends excessive time to emailing, text messaging or calling children or youth
• Insists on or manages to spend uninterrupted time alone with a child?
• Seems “too good to be true, i.e. frequently baby sits different children for free; takes children on special outings alone; buys children gifts or gives them money for no apparent reason?
• Allows children or teens to consistently get away with inappropriate behaviors?

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