Are Male Bathroom Helpers A Threat To Kids’ Safety?

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'Should volunteer dads be allowed to take girls to the bathroom at a preschool? One mom said no, and her response has ignited a controversy.

Jenna Myers Karuvinidis runs a parenting blog that's been featured on CBS Chicago in the past. Late last month, she took to her blog to protest a policy at her daughter's preschool: parents have to volunteer on a regular basis, and volunteers' duties include taking kids to the bathroom. Dads volunteer too, which means that "while I'm at home kicking it up over laundry, my daughter is a mile away MAYBE having some dude I've never met cleaning her butt." She continued,

"99% of sexual predators are men, only 1% are women and girls are over twice as likely as boys to be sexually abused.

Perhaps when my daughter is older and can better communicate we can talk about who is okay to touch what, but for my two-year-old, I want the clear idea to be "men don't go anywhere near that part of my body". Not the friend's dad at school, not the friend's dad at our house while mommy is busy hosting a BBQ. Not the new strange man in class, not the new strange man anywhere."

So she talked to officials at the school, who assured her that men would no longer take her daughter to the bathroom. They also "formed a task committee to research standard practices at other preschools and will institute a change based on that and other findings." Sounds like a measured and reasonable response to us. But not to men's rights activists on Reddit, who are now roundly lambasting Karuvindis. They also listed her as a "bigot" on Register-Her, an MRA site that also purports to list female sex offenders.'