Shashwata Nova

Narcissistic Parenting, Emotional Neglect, and Why Some Children Become Easier Targets for Predators Not all child abuse begins with a predator. Sometimes, vulnerability begins much earlier, inside the child’s own home. Long before exploitation occurs, some children are raised in environments where: their emotions are dismissed, boundaries are ignored, love is conditional, obedience is prioritised over safety, and the child learns that their needs matter less than the adult’s comfort. This...

The Evidence-Based Future of Prevention, Safeguarding, and Collective Responsibility After every major abuse scandal, society often asks the same questions: “How did nobody notice?” “How did this continue for so long?” “How could this happen around so many people?” “What more could parents have done?” These questions usually emerge from shock. But across decades of child protection research, psychology, criminology, trauma studies, and safeguarding investigations, one uncomfortable reality...

Online Grooming, Sextortion, Parasocial Manipulation, AI Exploitation, and the New Architecture of Child Abuse The internet did not invent child exploitation. But it transformed: how quickly offenders gain access, how widely abuse can scale, how easily trust can be manufactured, and how difficult exploitation can become to detect. Today, a child does not need to physically encounter a predator for grooming to begin. Access can emerge through: games, livestreams, fandom spaces, influencers,...