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I think there is a situation where a parent may feel compelled to stop a picture from being taken of thier child.

For example, a photog with a 500mm tele lens, hanging from a tree in your yard, shooting into your child's room. Yeah, that's a beating.

Guy with his pants down, running around the playground, trying to get pics with his camera phone of kids on swings. Yeah, that's a beating.

Guy with a camera follwing your kids around shooting pics of them while offering candy. Yeah, that's a beating.

Guy with camera bag, camera, clothes on and in place, shooting the playground your kids happen to be on...yeah, that's a beating for you if you freak out.

When the person taking pictures has given no reasonable sign that it's...shall we call it..."photography with an ulterior motive" then they should be presumed to be doing just that: taking pictures.

Taking pictures is not a negative act in and of itself. Any motives put upon the photographer, with no reasonable cause, are just that: put on the photographer.
To rephrase that:
With no cause to presume ugly motives, they exist only in the head of the person that put them there.

IE: The parent's mind is so preoccupied with child crimes that they're seeing things that aren't there.

Not everyone is out to molest your kids. In fact, the vast majority are not. It's likely the guy with the camera is doing just what it looks like he's doing, and it's not a crime.

Like was mentioned earlier, the vast majority of abuse is perpatrated by people in positions of trust. Teach your kids to deal with real issues in effective ways. Don't run off guys taking pictures of kids.

It's a sad world when someone can't say somthing like "All children are beautiful" without being suspect.

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