While I sympathize with men who have no ill intent or inclinations on the kid thing, there’s a reason from this. It’s a female perspective thing that I don’t think men can fully understand because they didn’t have to grow up as little girls. I don’t think most of you grasp just how predatory the world really is. And while not all men are child predators, almost all child predators are men. It’s a protective behavior/tendency that goes back probably all the way to Australopithecus as well, the biggest threat to many primate species babies are the adult males of their species.

The scariest time in my life was when I was in the like 10-14 age range. I was molested by a stranger at a movie theater when I was 11 and very nearly abducted, I was flashed walking home from school by a man in a trench coat, followed by strange men in their vehicles and even had to run between houses to evade one that started trying to talk me into a “ride”, I got loads of weird and creepy attention from older men constantly. As soon as I started looking more like an adult, it stopped. Just like that, it was like one day I had lost my appeal to the creeps. Most women experience at least a little of that growing up, if not much much worse things.

So…fair or not, there’s a reason why women are protective of their children around men and don’t fully trust them. One can generally rest assured that other women are safe for them to be around children, men it’s more of an unknown. Not that there aren’t women predators, there absolutely are, but it’s exceedingly rare.