The Spectre Haunting Kids

The spectre haunting childhood these days is not pedophilia, it is the mechanism of alienation on the part of a society paranoid about them. A slug child molester harms individual children at particular instances, but paranoia harms all at every time. Yet it is surprising that, given that intuition, paranoia is allowed to run rampant, raping, robbing, and killing off people's better judgment and attention to their children. Parents become like frightened children themselves, hellbent at protecting their toybox from the demons lurking in the shadows at the end of the bed, their children reduced to toys and their sanity reduced to well-intentioned but dangerous psychosis.

Paranoia affects its children with improper socialization, a distanced interaction, a alienation between self and society; it builds a barrier between parents and society, a brick wall between children and parents, and pits society against itself. When benevolent actions become the subject of everyone's suspicions, evil is overlooked.

Already the call has gone out for more male involvement for children's organizations at community levels, and evidence has shown that both girls and boys benefit from male involvement in their lives. However, the old cultural dispersions have once again claimed more well-intentioned lives for the sake of psychosis, and men are just as dissuaded from these positions and turned away from childcare arenas as they would have been back in the days before so-called gender equality. This is a time of paranoia and suspicion indeed, and it's effects are no more beneficial than you would expect.