Positive effects

    Benefits of teaching children in school about Megan's Law

    "There therefore needs to be more public education to raise awareness that most sexual abuse is perpetrated by someone known to the child." (K. Fitch, 2006)
    • All children are aware of the way they should be treated
    • Lower rates of teenage pregnancy, rape, suicide
    • They are able to protect themselves
    • prevent future abuse
    It is said that abuse of a spouse will follow abuse of children, or vice versa.
    Teaching children could change this assumption!