Whoa, the Pedophile’s a Lady
A friend recently related a story she found shocking: another mom had brought her three-year-old daughter into the bank, and the girl was naked from the waist down. “Where all those men could see her,” the woman told me.
The concern over the nakedness of a three-year-old aside, the idea that a man seeing a naked child was that much worse than a woman seemed particularly absurd. Continue reading »
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Tags: babysitter, child abuse, female caregiver, Jeanne Sager, pedophile, sexual abuse, sexual assault
Britain Checking Kiddie Lit Authors for Pedophilia
If your kids’ favorite author was going to be speaking at their school, would you want them to undergo background checks to make sure they’re not a pedophile?
Authors across Britain have gotten their knickers in a twist thanks to a new ruling that requires they all register with a national database and submit to background checks before they can make the rounds to peddle their books and read to the kids. Continue reading »
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Tags: authors, books, child safety, children's books, education, Jeanne Sager, pedophile, reading, schools, sex abuse, stranger danger
Guess Who’s Behind the Lens of Child Porn?
By it’s very nature, the idea behind child pornography is chilling. So how does it get worse?
When statistics come out that point the finger for child porn straight at parents. In a Tampa Bay-based story about a series of parents arrested on child porn charges came this demoralizing statistic: Continue reading »
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Tags: bad parenting, bad parents, child abuse, child porn, child porn charges, crime, criminal, Jeanne Sager, pedophile, sex abuse
Michael Jackson: Pedophile or Attachment Parent?
During the past week I’ve heard and read countless references to Michael Jackson’s supposed pedophilia. Everything from throw-away wisecracks and bad jokes to mean-spirited claims to being glad he is dead due to his abuse of children have been popping up everywhere, it seems.
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Tags: attachment parenting, celebrity parents, child abuse, co-sleeping, family bed, Martin Bashir, michael jackson, pedophile, sexual abuse, Shannon LC Cate
