Sex-Ed for frum kids

I don't usually recycle comments, but I think this one bears repeating. From RebReb's thread:

Where are all the parents who should be educating their children about the dangers of sexual predators? I blame all the same people you do, but at the same time, I also it's every parent's responsibility (not the schools' or community leaders') to make sure it never happens to their child-- so that if it does, the child knows how to respond.

It's time to let go of old notions of chilhood innocence, where we don't expose our kids to anything sex-related until it's applicable. First of all they find out by themselves much earlier than we'd like anyway through friends and pop culture, so may as well do it in an appropriate way, via parent-to-child talk. Second of all, it's worth "corrupting" a kid at a younger age with this unpleasant knowledge, if only to avoid the one in a million chance that the child will be Gd forbid exposed to abuse and not know what it is or that they should run and tell an adult.

Update: SephardiLady says it better.