How empowering kids can help protect them from abuse

If you grew up in the 1970s, '80s and '90s in Australia, you might recall being warned about "stranger danger".

Parents, teachers and even the media used the phrase to warn children about talking to unfamiliar adults to reduce the chance of child abduction or abuse. But child protection experts now suggest a different approach to reflect that ‘strangers' are not the main perpetrators of child abuse.