As Christian parents how can we help keep our daughters safe in an unsafe world?

From street harassment to online threats, today’s world demands Christian parents step up with honest talks, safety plans, and spiritual resilience for their daughters

This article contains references to sexual violence against women.

Northamptonshire police force are currently offering the opportunity for women over the age of 18 to ‘walk and talk’ for 30 minutes with a police officer who will listen to their concerns about personal safety on five specific dates (28 February, 12 and 27 March, and 7 and 24 April). It’s a development from a 2021 initiative from London’s Metropolitan Police force after Sarah Everard was kidnapped and killed on Clapham Common by an off duty police officer.

Men seldom have to think about taking precautions when they’re out. Mothers will be more aware about some of the challenges of being female in today’s world. For our daughters, the world is vastly different from the one we grew up in.

Each of my girls has endured verbally and physically aggressive encounters with violent men on the street which have left them hyper-vigilant

Need we remind ourselves that females are inherently valuable to God? Of course, men carry value too, but creation was not completed until God created a woman. Shaping Eve completed His work; she was no afterthought, after creating Eve ‘God saw all that he had made, and it was very good’ (Genesis 1:31).

Both male and female are made in God’s image. We’re not the same; neither gender is dispensable. We complement one another, naturally expressing different characteristics of God. Only together do we rightly ……