It's gotten to the point that people view everything through a pedophile lens. I certainly understand some paranoia, but a dad bathing his 3-year-old daughter??

My mother combed my hair every day until I was fourteen. I'm still kind of bitter about her stopping.

Men? Apparently they are untrustworthy scum.

Who let them be in charge, again?

And since he ISN'T a pedophile he isn't going to accidentally feel them up instead of scrubbing them.

And since he ISN'T a pedophile, he's not going to suddenly become one by giving his kids a bath. That's not how it works. Jesus.

One of the callers complained that a man being alone with his son in the woods would give the man the opportunity to molest his son.

Hmm. That speaks volumes about the caller. In a sad way, but still. Nothing to do with the father and son.

I agree that they are perhaps getting too old for their baths to be on national TV, if only because it's not that long until kindergarten and the "Ha ha! You were naked on TV!" taunts. But people on this forum also think that it's absolutely horrible that the parents will accept free clothes and kids' shampoo and whatnot. And that they actually get paid for going to talk to church groups and parents groups about what it's like to raise twins and sextuplets.

I agree that they are perhaps getting too old for their baths to be on national TV

Heh. I'd say that 1 day old is too old to have a bath broadcast to millions of homes.

n the TWOP forum for Jon and Kate Plus Eight, people are saying that it's "inappropriate" for the three-year-old girls to be given baths by their father, and that their mother should be doing it.

Am I right in thinking that the cutoff for letting kids into opposite-sex bathrooms and gym/pool changing areas is generally 5 or so? So by this logic, my 3-year old son would be perfectly fine coming with me into the women's locker room at the Y, but once there I wouldn't be allowed to help him into his swimsuit?

Do these people think that young children of single fathers should be left unbathed?

Do these people think that young children of single fathers should be left unbathed?

Or adopted children of gay couples? (That is, if these people are on board with the idea of gay adoption in the first place, which may not be the case...)

I was wondering the same thing, WindSparrow. Or, if they'd think Annabel should go unbathed for an entire week if I go to a writers conference or something.

Do these people think that young children of single fathers should be left unbathed?

As a onetime child of a single father, I was wondering the same thing. There's as much "moms should do all the childcare" thinking buried in there as there is pedophilia fear.