re: #81 wrenchwench

Sometimes I think non-parents have a responsibility to stick up for kids against their parents or any other adult who might be messing with them. Sort of like when you become management, you can’t be in the union any more. Once you have kids, everybody says your perspective changes. Nobody says it’s invariably for the better.

I don’t have kids either, but I was one. I also have siblings, nieces and nephews, and did plenty of babysitting. My perspective is not that of parents, but it isn’t worthless, either.

Cracked had a great article from a former sex slave. One thing that the article mentioned was, the first thing that most adults do when a child brings up such a subject is - go to their parents! WHY on earth would you go to the parents of a child who confessed they get passed around to Mommy and Daddy’s “special friends” for confirmation is beyond me.