Commentary
It’s a tragic irony that just as the world is finally waking up to the damage to children who miss out on masculine influence in their lives, the moral panic over sexual abuse is driving away the very few men still working with them—men who play a particularly vital role for kids in single mum households.
In this current climate, with false allegations unchecked, all men working with children are at risk; however they behave. Talk to a few teachers, and you hear the stories.
Like the newly graduated teacher working in a school in Port Macquarie who allegedly ran into problems with a female student who refused to finish the assignment he’d set for the class….