CHILD SAFETY / CYBERSECURITY

When is ‘love bombing’ coercive control?

The eSafety Commissioner provides information on how to identify coercive control in a relationship.

How do you know when love has gone from ‘care’ to ‘control’? The short answer: it’s tricky. It often only becomes obvious when lots of smaller actions by a romantic partner, like 'love bombing', add up to a relationship that’s controlling and unhealthy.

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Body Safety Cards

The National Office for Child Safety provides a PDF of printable body safety cards that families can use with their children.

The ‘Body Safety Cards’ provide children and young people with empowering phrases and rules they can remember and use in unsafe situations. Each card has a sentence for a child or young person to learn and refer to, a fun image, and a discussion prompt to open up the conversation.

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