Avoiding Kids: How Men Cope
With Being Cast as Predators
by Jeff Zaslow
The Wall Street Journal Online
A fascinating dilemma:
Even parents and grandparents
are under suspicion.
Excerpt:
Last month, I wrote about how our culture teaches children to fear men. Hundreds of men responded, many lamenting that they've now become fearful of children. They said they avert their eyes when kids are around, or think twice before holding even their own children's hands in public.
Frank McEnulty, a builder in Long Beach, Calif., was once a Boy Scout scoutmaster. "Today, I wouldn't do that job for anything," he says. "All it takes is for one kid to get ticked off at you for something and tell his parents you were acting weird on the campout." - J.Z.
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