AI, Digital Blackmail and Coercion: A Parent's Guide to Recognizing the Threat Early, Protecting Your Child, and Responding When It Happens - Softcover

Lincoln, Adams Abraham

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798176997583

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Your child is talking to someone you cannot see.

It starts as a message. A friendly stranger. Someone who pays attention. Someone who seems to understand. Over days or weeks, that connection becomes meaningful — and then it becomes a trap.

AI, Digital Blackmail and Coercion is the calm, practical handbook for parents of children ages 8 – 18 who need to understand a crime most families have never heard of. Written in plain language, with no graphic content, this book gives you what you need before, during, and after a crisis.

Inside, you will learn:

• How this crime works — the four-stage progression from first contact to a demand, explained in clear, behavioral terms

• Why children do not tell — the shame, the fear, and the isolation that keep a child silent

• The conversation to have before anything happens — full scripts and fifteen age-appropriate openers

• The three rules — short enough for a child to remember under pressure

• The digital hygiene protocol — the six settings that matter, and the twenty-minute family device audit

• The Family Agreement — a printable document with the no-punishment disclosure clause

• The First Hour — a step-by-step protocol for the sixty minutes after your child tells you

• Evidence preservation — what to save, and why the instinct to delete is so damaging

• Reporting — who to contact, in what order, and what to expect

• Recovery — the shame spiral, withdrawal, rebuilding trust, and prevention for the long term

This is not a book about technology. It is a book about your child.

You do not need a technical background. You do not need to understand algorithms or code. You need only a willingness to have the conversation and a clear protocol for the moment everything changes.

The first hour is survivable. You are not too late. And a child who tells you is a child who trusts you.

Includes a page written directly to your child, printable protocol cards, and a glossary of safe terms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798176997583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290