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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (1686)	1/19/2001 2:53:48 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

After all- women are much less likely to molest. Or we can prohibit all men from working with children. That would be the cautious thing to do- if I follow your reasoning, which is aimed at protecting children. Are there estimates of the ratio of men who are child molesters to those who are not?

To: epicure who wrote (1686)	1/19/2001 3:13:14 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Or we can prohibit all men from working with children. So gender discrimination in employment is OK if it is possibly based in reality?

To: epicure who wrote (1686)	1/19/2001 5:06:03 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm assuming from an earlier remark of yours that the men who are involved in your troop are the fathers of little girls in the troop. I'm also assuming that <<Or we can prohibit all men from working with children. That would be the cautious thing to do- if I follow your reasoning, which is aimed at protecting children. >> is just facetious, since I have not remotely proposed any such idea. If straight men from the community in their twenties or thirties, say, and not related to the girls, showed up and asked to be girl scout troop leaders, would you have no objection to this as long as two of them at a time accompanied the young girls on their excursions or had them to their homes? The two at a time rule is a good one, of course I agree. I'm sure it's partly designed to address the sexual vulnerability of young people and partly as a defense against the possibility of false accusation or in reaction to general litigiousness. And a bunch of young kids needs at least two adults to manage it safely in any case.