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He looked to be about 6. At that age even a boy will sometimes feel "naked" without his shirt. It takes some serious convincing sometimes for my son to run around on a hot day without his shirt. It's the age when they first start realizing they need to have clothes on. They can be very modest. This may have been traumatic for him being in public and having to remove his shirt.

I have a 6 1/2 yo now... I understand what your saying, though to be honest my boy still runs through the house naked at shower time. He has no problem, but since I only have boys (4 now) perhaps it would be different with a girl in the family (we will never know). But... of course all kids should be inherently scared of others touching them, it is something we (as parents) have to instill in our children with today's society. Nobody is to touch you. It is for their good.

Now to the point that was overlooked in this video, the description said TSA did NOT take his shirt off. The video description says that his father did. We don't know if they requested it or if the father just did it because he was upset with the whole ordeal.

Below is the video description...

Lets get the facts straight first. Before the video started the boy went through a metal detector and didn't set it off but was selected for a pat down. The boy was shy so the TSA couldn't complete the full pat on the young boy. The father tried several times to just hold the boys arms out for the TSA agent but i guess it didn't end up being enough for the guy. I was about 30 ft away so i couldn't hear their conversation if there was any. The enraged father pulled his son shirt off and gave it to the TSA agent to search, thats when this video begins.

Without knowing who provoked the shirt being removed. We can only speculate. Did TSA wrongly force a little kid to take off his shirt? Did the father just get mad that it was taking so long that he decided to hurry up the search. We don't know, the video is too short to give us an exact explanation. The description is limited in information. We will just have to wait for further comment or just run over in our "mind's eye" what we would do in a similar situation. Most people I am sure put their child's security about about anything else here on FR. This is an emotional subject. But I think we owe it to ourselves to get the facts first.