A very good point from Trooper Thompson:
... new regulations for vetting adults with regard to child protection. One of the most pernicious aspects of the modern, 'all-are-suspect' approach is that it normalises something that is utterly unthinkable to the average person... Ordinary human feelings, wishing to protect and correct a child - as I was, growing up thirty years ago - become internalised and suppressed...There is also, surely, the possibility that this normalisation will have the opposite to the intended effect, that it will increase, and not help decrease, child abuse.
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"intended" by whom?
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