I know that this is unfair, but I am pretty suspicious of ANY man who puts himself in a position to have unsupervised interaction with kids. Not that I think they are all bad, but I don’t trust my instincts enough to be sure which ones are good. [/quote]
I don’t think it’s unfair at all. In fact, we took it a step further when our daughter was young. We wouldn’t leave her with any man unsupervised whether he had put himself in that position or not. Not my brothers. Not our best friends. Nobody. How many times do you read in the news, “We knew him so well. I just can’t believe that he would do that.” An awful lot of men are pedophiles, and you have no way of knowing who is and who isn’t. Think of all the men who got away with it for years before they got caught. For every one of them, how many are still getting away with it? A little girl can’t defend herself and, in many cases, can’t speak up for herself, especially if she’s threatened. We figured it was up to us to make sure she never had to.
