I had a male friend who enjoyed interacting with my daughter when she was about two or three. As we used to hang out together often one night while I was cooking dinner he offered to help monitor her with her bath... now we had been friends for some time and I found myself doing some mental calculations. He was allowed to monitor her in the bath and I believed his intentions were in a parental caring aspect. I still found myself keeping a careful eye, just to ensure.
Some responses from my other friends ranged from he was stupid to put himself in that situation where suspicion could be raised to he's just sick and I shouldn't have allowed it!
I think it's really sad that males have a harder time in our society because of issues such as these, but at the same time there have been prevelant reasons to worry about such issues. *sigh*- no answers...
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