Former slave Frederick Douglass said, “It is easier to build stronger children than to repair broken men.” Douglass—the social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and Lincoln’s friend and adviser—was right then, and he’s still right. With National Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month both being observed in April, there may be no better time to recognize the urgency of these issues. Twenty years ago, the connection between early exposure to domes