Older children may even be offered employment in exchange for sexual favors. This is why you need to have a code word with your kids. Then if this was a real situation, the family friend could say the code word, and the child would know that it was all right to go with them. It is important to stress with kids that only the parents and the children can know the code word, and that the parent will only tell someone who is picking up the child in an emergency. The last principle of abuse protection is teaching children how to act around strangers.
Kids are very confused about what the word stranger means.
They often do not understand they need to be just as careful around strangers who are nice, or pretty, or who know their name, or who they have seen before. Teach kids to drop what they're doing and stand up when a stranger comes into the yard or playground, and to always stay out of reach of any stranger. Again, stress the importance of listening to that funny feeling inside to get away from a stranger if something doesn't seem right. Teach your children that they are responsible for keeping themselves safe when you cannot be with them. Kids also need to understand that they are never responsible for an adult mistreating them.