From: ABlainey@aol.com
Date: Mon Feb 10 2003 - 19:13:26 MST
In a message dated 10/02/03 21:22:51 GMT Standard Time,
michaelroyames@yahoo.com writes:
> A very good question indeed, Samantha. As a teenager I often took
> child-sitting jobs because a) I got paid to sit quietly, studying and b)
> I enjoyed being with children. Nothing weird about that: I had grown up
> in a family surrounded by younger children, and as a teenager had moved
> away from home - and found I missed the kids. When I hit twenty years
> old, one parent asked me: "Don't you ever worry about being considered a
> pervert?" (not nastily, just asking) It quite shook me up, I can tell
> you. I answered: "Well, no. Do you think I should worry?" The Mother
> shook her head, and left for an evening out with her husband. That
> night, for the first time ever, I felt a twinge of discomfort when
> reading a bed-time story to a child.
>
It is even more sad when as the parent of a child you feel that doing
something normal such as bathing them, you are somehow doing something wrong.
The current hysterical state of Pedomania that dominates the press is doing
damage to healthy people's minds.
> It is saddening to see people raise eyebrows over bed-sharing, and you
> see it especially often when the adult is male. When an adult shares a
> bed with a child, it seems the current default assumption is: 'looking
> for sexual jollies'. It used to be: 'providing comfort and warmth'.
> What went wrong? Is society becoming more cynical?
>
> Michael Roy Ames
>
>
I draw the line at sharing a bed with my children, let alone anyone else's.
However this is purely for reasons of getting a good night sleep. If one of
them woke me up I would surely batter them and that would be a different
crime altogether.
It is strange that if you fell asleep with a child on a sofa, that is
perfectly expectable. It just proves the Bed=Sex mentality.
Alex
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