Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) is accused in a new court filing of distributing photos of his toddler daughter that may constitute child sexual abuse material.Miller posted a public Dropbox folder on Aug. 2 to rebut domestic abuse allegations from his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moren...
I have never, ever taken a photo of my toddlers bathing. Never received one from anyone else, either. Never saw anyone I know take such photos either.
What, exactly is a “normal toddler photo” to you?
I made sure my kids photos never had genitals in them but I did take a couple bath photos when they were able to sit up on their own. I had a bad childhood so I was always cognizant of harm from pictures so maybe others that never had to think of that just didn’t think?
There are many photos of toddler-me in the family photo album, but this was also back in the film camera days. They’re adorable, but modern versions would earn some side-eye from me. (one has me full-frontal on a beach, waving at the camera. TBH it was hard to keep clothes on me as a toddler.)
Tell me you’ve never had kids, blah blah. Toddlers run around naked all the time, and NORMAL parents don’t think of it in a sexual context, they see their kid being cute and grab the camera.
This is true but having had to go through the many file boxes of a local pedophile to see if he had any of children in our building I can tell you that those pictures make it into many grubby hands, where they take on a whole different connotation. And this was even back in the day when you sent film to be developed. Now you have to expect that they will make it out to the world through the Internet.
You’re describing “NORMAL” behavior from a generation ago. You are right that people up thru the 90s would act that way, but Michael Jackson news and Catholic Church scandals made this a lot less socially acceptable over the last 3 decades or so.
What does socially acceptable mean? This is occurring in the privacy of one’s home, not the grocery store.
Even in the 90s it was not socially acceptable for a toddler to be naked in public.
No, but taking pictures of your own kids when they were naked at home for your private family album was more socially acceptable then
Yeah I think it’s weird too, inconsiderate of the person, I wouldn’t take or post photos like that either.
Still, the pictures probably depict normal day to day care of the kid, if there were specific acts portrayed those would be described in the article. They aren’t. The whole article uncritically quotes both sides, who are both doing their best to be in the top position of power.
It’s a shit article that doesn’t even acknowledge the real problem, the parents weaponizing everything at hand at the expense of their child.