The biggest problem we have is that parents -- a lot of the time -- want to be able to place the blame somewhere else, we want think that our children are safe and it could never happen to us. It's always going to happen to somebody else. That's a big mistake we all make as parents.

Christianne Boudreau

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How can families reach out for help if they are afraid people will come after them ? that’s why something like Mothers for Life was needed. To show that parents are n’t always to blame, but that we need to do whatever we can to stop this. We need the politicians to start to listen. We need them to help with outreach and with prevention.

Christianne Boudreau

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It is only getting harder, as ISIS is encouraging recruits to hide their religion, so it is really important to pick up on other changes.

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We need to start arming ourselves with the knowledge, the awareness, the education, and to be able to deal with these issues and be able to speak with our children at an early age, we do the same thing with sex education, with drugs, and this is just one more thing that our kids are faced with, a challenge.

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The way a lot of it happens is one main recruiter plants the ideology in their mind and the Internet reinforces that with the information that they can search up and other contacts that they can make easily online.

Christianne Boudreau

We were living in a really desperate black hole of trauma and we didn't know how to heal from it, and I was terrified that the anger would burn within them and not being able to cope with this type of trauma and that they would follow the same path.

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I saw some positive changes start to happen. He became social again. The old Damian that I knew when he was younger, much younger, was starting to come out. He was socializing, he was peaceful, he was grounded, he wasn't drinking, he wasn't using drugs, there were lots of positive changes.

Christianne Boudreau

In fact, what's out there is only something that can reinforce those ideas so we really need to start challenging the ideologies that are being placed in their minds.

Christianne Boudreau

He was compelled to go there to help save women and children to stop the torture, to stop Bashar al-Assad and that's what drew him there and as he told me, 'I'm finally doing something productive in my life, mum,'.

Christianne Boudreau