What Are We Losing As We Rush to Protect Kids? ; Columnist Lowriturner Talking Welsh Sense in a Mad, Mad World

Western Mail › September 18, 2009

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HAVE you printed your holiday snaps yet or, for those of a more traditional persuasion, have you had them back from Boots? If so, and you're a parent, how many of them were of your children? Most, I bet. For mums, it avoids the inevitable "how fat do I look in my swimming cossie" nightmare if we stand behind the camera.

We treasure such holiday snaps for years yet, according to new study Policing The Public Gaze, more and more of us are too paranoid to take these pictures. The report says that there are now no-go areas, enforced by community safety warnings, private security guards and what the report calls "self-appointed jobsworths", preventing mums and dads capturing images of their own children.

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What Are We Losing As We Rush to Protect Kids? ; Columnist Lowriturner Talking Welsh Sense in a Mad, Mad World

This is not scaremongering. I met one of these jobsworths recently. My two year-old had, quite unbidden, taken all her clothes off (it's amazing how fast they can get their clothes off when it ta...

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