Are there Sex Offenders Near Your Home or School?

Have you ever checked to see if there are registered sex offenders living in your neighborhood or near the schools your children attend?  If you have not, you need to do so.  One of the duties parents have is to protect their children from known harms.  If a registered sex offender lives in your neighborhood (or even close) or to your children's school and you have knowledge of this, you can be better prepared to protect your children by discussing  with your children how to avoid that particular location and what to do if approached by this person or a stranger.  You can also discuss measures to protect the children with other parents in the area and with school officials if there is a registered sex offender near the schools. 

It is very simple to check for a registered sex offender on-line.  Although there are many on-line places you can check, Family Watchdog is a useful site at http://www.familywatchdog.us/ and it is free to the public.  You can check your residential address as well as that of the school.

Source: Kansas Family & Divorce Lawyer