We’re creating a state where all adults are presumed to be up to no good as far as children are concerned.
Guidelines for my voluntary church childrens’ work require me,a female of grandparent age,never to be alone with a child,which is fair enough.
I’m also supposed to rebuff them if,God forbid,they freely offer me a cuddle ( try explaining that to a four year old ),prevent them from climbing up on my lap,and refrain from all physical contact if they hurt themselves and need comforting.
If the child was already seated when the man was asked to move,then he or she must have got the impression that sitting next to an unknown man was somehow asking for trouble.
Why wasn’t he just asked to change places with his wife ? At six months gone she wouldn’t have been at the horrible beached whale size yet.
That’s not to say that as a female she’d be absolutely above suspicion,of course. ( Must be p.c. ! )
What a world we’re creating.When I was a kid a lonely old man could sit watching children playing in a park and offer them sweets in all innocence.
Imagine that happening now.
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