Urgent message to parents

Trust no one with babysitting your children. And I mean NO ONE. I don't want society to come to a halt, but if there is any way at all that you can have one stay at home parent until they are in school and, frankly, use only someone like a grandparent who has practically undergone lie detector tests, use baby sitters sparingly. I realize poor single parents have little choice but I'm telling those of you who can afford to make some cut backs in your life style to save your children to do so.

People have gone collectively insane and I'm not exaggerating. Boundaries of self respect have disappeared. I'm amazed not by reports of rapes and sodomy, but now I'm amazed if an infant manages to grow up without being at least finger raped by someone who has access to his or her body. Remember, the stories you read in the press are not the rare exceptions; they are the rare ones that are being caught.

If I get through to anyone with this posting I will be glad to spare one child and one family what all too many people are going through, both knowingly and unknowingly.

Back in 1996 when I managed a group, one of my most valued (in the sense she had the rarest skills) employees was alarmed at the risks she was taking with leaving her baby with even the most vetted and "trusted" babysitter. Even though her skills were irreplaceable, I totally agreed with her when she resigned to be a stay at home mother. Some days she was so worried that she would come into my office and wring her hands and practically cry, and I TOTALLY understood and agreed with her. I totally shared and validated her worry, and this was over ten years ago, I knew of the assaults taking place on even infants, unconscious children and adults in hospitals, the mentally disabled, and those in nursing facilities. There is a societal madness that has taken over everyone, child to adult, where sexual probing and abuse of those who depend on them is more likely than not.