Comments on: This is why Disclosure is pointless

By: Mosh

Mosh — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:33:39 +0000

Weenie – yup, and I gather my uncle can’t be arsed with the Santa thing any more as a result, to give one example.

I’m planning to visit a friend who fosters in a couple of weeks. I have to be disclosed when I get to her place just to spend the weekend!

By: Mosh

Mosh — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:32:12 +0000

Andy – very sad state of affairs, isn’t it? As I said, society is now making us feel guilty when we’re not. I’ve mentioned on the blog before I’m sure that I love kids. I’m desperate to start a family. When I see a cute little kid in the supermarket on a trolley or whatever, I wave, or stick my tongue out or give them a big grin.

Apparently, judging by the reactions of most parents, this means I also want to steal/abuse them. Strangely if I’m accompanied by a female friend when I’m doing this, then it’s OK and I’m not a potential threat.

In Burma/Myanmar I got “talking” to a couple who were sleeping rough with their small child and baby. They kindly walked me and the chap I was with back to our hostel as we’d become lost. On the way we communicated vaguely (their English was slight, our Burmese non-existent). At one point, the woman handed her baby to me to hold. Me. An utter stranger. In a subcontinent renowned for child trafficking and abuse.

Also a subcontinent where the Daily Mail isn’t sold.

By: weenie

weenie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:46:02 +0000

The sad thing is that the whole hassle of having to fill out that paperwork could potentially put off genuine normal people who just want to work with children.

And that will leave the paedos/sickos who haven’t been caught and for whom it’s worth forking out £35 a pop to get a chance at being close to little Timmy or Emily…

By: almost witty

almost witty — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:54:34 +0000

The paranoia gets worse and worse. Last night, a seven year-old kid from the downstairs flat went missing – when we found out, we were horrified and discussed the possiblity of joining in the hunt. But the policeman there cautioned against doing that, because kids are told not to talk to strangers – and that’s when it dawned on me that the reason the police were being relatively cautious in telling us what was happening was because they thought we could have been dodgy people. Thus, we were actively discouraged from helping a child. Fortunately, the kid’s now safe and sound.

As Mark Easton (Home Affairs Editor, BBC News) puts it: “Generational segregation in Britain might now be a greater risk to the fabric of our nation than segregation by race, religion or class.”