Call me what you will, but men looking after little kids like this has always been a huge red flag for me. It is not natural.
Agreed, maybe for a stop gap or am internship for teaching or such, but not as a full-time gig. Men need to stand up on their hind legs and carry a load for a while, so they can learn how to teach young men to become men proper.
My daughter is a Director of a military child care operation on a base, she has one or two males working in the rooms, they , like the gals too, are never left alone with kids, the bathrooms have no door and cameras are recording everything all day.
Males, whether parents or family or visitors, cannot use walk in bathrooms, they must get the male bath key from the front desk, and they cannot take a child in with them....
No kidding. It goes the same for Kindergarten teachers and elementary school as well. They have traditionally been the domain of women, who overwhelmingly have the nurturing instinct on their side.
I don't think men should be over children until at least the 6th or 7th grades.
Agree completely. Only condition is in the case of a husband/wife team, and only then with limited access to the children on the part of the male. No bathroom duty, and lots of joint observable activities with complete accountability to the wife or other females.
Children are too precious to trust them with males who are interested in childcare for other people's children.