Re: Child molestation
Never.
If kids had “judgement” then you wouldn’t have to correct them, train them and tell them not to do certain things because you trust their judgement. When a kid is faced with socially engineered talk from an adult who is going to persuade the kid with cunning talk then a kids *judgement *cannot save him/her. If a kid touches hot stove, gets burn, you can trust their judgement in future that they won’t touch it again. But the issue of being molested leaves a mental scar without the pain of burning and the child may fall to another predator since it was OKAY activity last time with another adult.
Moreover, if kids had better judgement, you wouldn’t have to watch them when on a roof or in a parking lot… you *trust *their *judgement *right? They KNOW a car could back up anytime or they could fall from the roof… trusting their judgement when it comes to a child molester (another thinking, manipulative human) is not only foolish and puts the child at greater danger. Why take such unnecessary risk?
Your child is not going to hold you accoutable for not giving them privacy or not trusting their judgement. However, they are going to blame you for not protecting them or leaving them alone with someone because you couldn’t take them with you or YOU couldn’t use BETTER JUDGEMENT to take them with you.