by jezer » Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:30 pm
Just because an older guy enjoys entertaining children, does not make him a pedophile.
I'm lead to believe the wiggles are actually professionals, and have degrees in early childhood studies.
I really dislike the bad image guys get when appearing with children these days... for one, it's readily excepted, that a lack of a decent father figure has a profoundly negative effect of children.
Now days there are laws where you can't even take pictures of your own children at swimming events and such things like that, there is this permanent "air of suspicion" when a guy is seen near a child. I hate it, and having done youth worth in the past, this sentiment has made me want to work with older kids, just to escape that whole "perceived perversion" I know in my heart I don't even have!
So please give guys a break! And I'm sorry to preach at you, but this keeps coming up in some form or another, and you did say would you TRUST these guys with your children.
I believe there has to be a turning back, where guys seen with kids is a good thing again. The stigma around these days, is only fueling a fire whereby more kids will have there lives bent out of shape because of a lack of a father figure.
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