Yes, and I’m suspicious of men who continue to coach boys after their own are grown.
“Yes, and I’m suspicious of men who continue to coach boys after their own are grown.”
It sounds terrible when you consider these people are giving of their time, but I won’t take chances with my children. We’ve had coaches offer to drive them to practices/games, and politely refuse; I notice a small number of other parents wait at each practice (which can be a few hours), and assume they’re on the same page as me.
“Yes, and I’m suspicious of men who continue to coach boys after their own are grown.”
Some of the best coaches I ever played for had no children on the team. They also made it clear that they were not “babysitters”. The Rules were always the same for parents:
1. Bring your own child to practice.
2. Be there PRIOR to the end of practice to pickup child.
3. The Coach gave rides to NO ONE.
4. If a parent was late, another parent had to stay with the coach and waiting child.
5. Another adult(parent/coach) MUST be at every practice/game.
This was years ago! It is called common sense.
Almost EVERY case of abuse has an isolation component where ONE adult is alone with ONE child. If every organization and parent put safeguards in place to prevent this isolation from ever taking place the opportunity for sexual abuse would disappear.
I am less suspicious of these men with grown children and am more disgusted with parents who want to dump kids for an hour, or two, so they don’t have to bother with them.