Gritt23
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I agree with you but even if thought processes are childlike the behaviour was not acceptable.
For example. A bunch of 9 year olds have a sleep over and all decide to get their 'old men' out to compare. Not wholly unusual or damaging. Now imagine the same scenario in a 40 year old mans bedroom where said man is encouraging and joining in.
As childlike as MJ may have been, would you want your child exposed to that?
But we have no idea whether than was happening or not, and that isn't what I was suggesting happened. I mean his was child-like in not realising how innocent fun (not waving your sausage around) can be viewed in a damaging light. His concern wasn't what people think and say about completely innocent fun.
I'm talking about the shocking studies when a picture of a bloke playing with a group of kids is immediately viewed as "suspicious" by an increasing percentage of the population.
As for my own child .... I'd play it by ear. I wouldn't leave him there all alone from the first time I met Michael, but I wouldn't do that with anyone I don't know. You then make a judgement on how much you trust someone over time, and you also base it on how your kids react around them.