" Check List: How to Spot a Child Predator or Child Molester"

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"Warriors for Innocence"
[I am writing an entry here because apparently, if we even DARE to go against their beliefs in their comments section, they'll "delete comments immediately."]
This sincerely made me laugh... (Text directly quoted from "Warriors for Innocence")

Check List: How to Spot a Child Predator or Child Molester
You need to be aware of the following...
~ A person who is very helpful or alluring
~ A person who exhibits peer-like play
~ A person who has no adult friends and will spend time with children rather than adults
~ A person who plays tickling games and roughhouses/dog piles with kids
~ A person who is immediately accepted into the family
~ A person who refuses to honor boundaries set by you or by society in general
These are all signs of grooming that child predators will use on you, your family, and on entire communities. There is no way to know for sure if someone is a child molester until they have violated a child. Therefore, you cannot accuse someone based on this information. Instead, you can use this as a tool to screen out high risk people, and to keep them away from your children.

Anyone who is nice and will be nice without asking for compensation is naturally, at all times, an evil person wanting to get your baby from you so that he can rape her.

The last time I checked, doing nice things without getting paid was called "volunteering," and being nice to your friends and neighbors were called "common sense." Since when do you need to be paid to justify the fact that you aren't a pedophile?
I find this VERY offending. Many people have been nice to me and my family in the many years we've been around, and I do believe I have been nice to many people without compensation. Sometimes, they don't even realize what I did for them.

But I guess now, they and I are all pedophiles, out to get each other's kids.

As a person going to major in early childhood education to become a GASP!!! PRESCHOOL TEACHER?!?!?, I find this section of the post very offending:

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A person who has no adult friends and will spend time with children rather than adults:
We all have friends and even acquaintances that we talk with on a regular basis. Child predators devote all of their time to children. Their entire lives revolve around children. They continue babysitting, and often prefer activities and jobs that involve children like mentoring for children’s organizations, coaching, teaching, camp counselors, etc. They will often choose these activities over socializing with their adult peers.

Well, the last time I checked, we were at a very big shortage for teachers. I guess it's because we are all afraid we'll be labeled as pedophiles if we revolve our lives around kids.

I love kids. I love being with them, watch them learn, teach them things and see that they have an enormous capacity to learn and live which we lost long ago.

They are our future.

Without people to guide them, there will be no future generation. But now, apparently, all of us who try to help the children grow up to be responsible, caring adults are pedophiles out to rape and molest little kids.

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A person who is immediately accepted into the family:
Being accepted into a family situation should take time and trust. Child predators are skilled at manipulating adults into accepting them. Stop and take a look at any situation where a stranger, who approaches your family or child, immediately gains your trust and acceptance.

That is obviously not the person's fault that they were accepted. The family accepted them into their family, and probably because they believe that the person is a good person. It is your responsibility as a parent to gauge who comes near you as safe or unsafe. Just because someone is friendly does not mean he is going to come and rape your kids.

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I think these people should read over what they write and think to themselves, "Hey... whom are we offending?"
"Do we really care about the kids we say we care about?"
Because if they did, they wouldn't be belittling the educators and people who take care of children because they love children because that is how we are.

We aren't interested in having sex with little kids. We aren't interested in molesting your little kids. I like having fun with them. And I don't consider it a crime to love kids.

I wouldn't want to raise my kids where we are so afraid and paranoid of each other that our children grow up to be very insecure and afraid of the world, unable to trust anyone.

Trust is an important part of a human being's life, and it has taken me YEARS to learn how to have one in people.


Works Cited:
Sues. " Check List: How to Spot a Child Predator or Child Molester." Weblog entry. 29 Apr. 2008. Warriors For Innocence. 3 May 2008.