I didn't say he thought it was inappropriate. Why does everyone keep making up words?
I said he shied away from doing those things. That doesn't mean he didn't do them, but he'd be more comfortable letting our 2 year old son into the shower with him than he would our daughter. Edit: Oh god. Let me be clear. He didn't take any showers with our daughter. Ever. Jesus.
Any idiot knows that men can abuse/molest boys, but if you want to pretend like people aren't automatically more suspicious when it comes to the opposite sex then you are doing just that - pretending. If your daughter had a friend who wanted her to sleep over and it was going to be the friend, your daughter, and the friend's mother then you probably would think, "cool, sounds like a fun girl's night."
Keep everything in that scenario the same except instead of the friend's parent being a mother, let's make the parent a single dad. Still think it sounds fun? You're lying if you say you wouldn't have reservations about letting your child stay all night with a man even if you'd be okay letting her stay with a woman.
This is universally true and part of the reason there are so few male daycare providers. I worked with a male provider and he took heat CONSTANTLY.
Anyway, this is like talking to a wall. Really bored, weird walls. If you would pay attention to things that were actually said such as "practically begs" which is a figure of speech and "perfectly fine sleeping on his own" which got turned into "repeatedly says he doesn't want to sleep in the bed."
He's six. He can walk. He goes and gets into OUR bed (which I am present in) on his own.
Does his dad prefer it? Yes. Is he forced to do it? No. Obviously, if he were being forced against his will to co-sleep then there would never be a night where my husband would have to bring him into our bed after he falls asleep because he wouldn't be allowed to get into his bed in the first place. These accusations are so wild that they are contradicting themselves.
He's a six year old boy. He falls asleep on the couch, in the floor, you name it. I never said after a long, heated BATTLE that he wins and gets to sleep in his BED and then is taken out of his bed and taken to ours against his wishes. I said he brings him to our bed after he falls asleep...as in....puts him in our bed instead of his own bed.
Whatever. That was too ridiculous not to respond to.