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Why can't parents take pictures of their kids in the bathroom anymore?

On the news Walmart is getting sued for having kids taken away from a couple because they took pictures of their kids bathing. I thought everyone did that(take pictures of their tots-usually-bathing)? What's wrong with that?

Public Comments

1. first off - Wal Mart cannot be sued if social services takes someone's children away. Well..they can be SUED -b ut that doesn't mean the parents will win...wal-mart doesn't know if the children belong to the adults, or if it's child pornography. Better safe than sorry. What's the big deal anyways, why the infatuation with boys and girls genitalia?
2. thats f*cking stupid my mom has some baby pictures of min the bathtub with my cousin
3. I personally don't see anything wrong with it. I have many pictures of my daughter bathing.
4. Thats ridiculous...I have tons of fotos of my kids not only bathing but running around the house in their nip and on the beach etc etc.... Its a sad sad state of affairs that you have to be careful of taking photos of your children when they are in their natural state and happy because someone might get the wrong idea.... this is what our messed up perverted world has become :(
5. coz of the weirdos about nowadays. i think some places will still print photos providing theyre not too graphic ( imean how perverted do you have to be to consider babies in the bath graphic!!!) i took pics of my baby in bath but made sure you couldnt see his willy by covering it with bubbles an when he was only weeks old my hand was covering it as i had to hold him.
6. Huh? What's Wal-Mart have to do with it?
7. It is just more political correctness run amuck. Nothing is wrong with it but it is best to use a digital camera to do so these days. This isn't the first time with Walmart. Understandably they don't want to be part of the child porn industry but to have the call made by someone getting paid minimum wage with few benefits just doesn't make sense. Seriously the child porn industry is highly sophisticated. Does anyone really believe they will take film into Walmart to get developed?
8. I don't think most people have a problem with it(so long as it is not sexual in nature and the children are still fairly young). There are some people who are very rigid in what they consider abusive however who may take offense at bath time photos.
9. There is such paranoia over child pornography (a disgusting crime) that a lot of innocent parents are paying the price. A few months back a local one hour photo called the police over some pictures left for developing. The pictures consisted of a toddler (almost 2) in the bathtub. Those innocent pictures added to some photos of the toddler breastfeeding ( the clerk considered him too old for that) led to Abuse Allegations. WTF? Eventually the mother was cleared but not before CPS became involved, she was arrested and arraigned, and she lost her child care license. How can we persecute parents for snapshots, but let the pervs keep posting sexually explicit photo's of kids online and walk free? You tell me.
10. Those people actually had their children removed from the home for three days while DFS investigated. If you take "bathroom" pictures make sure no part of the gentalia shows - thats what they based the removal of the children on - cause one picture showed a little too much.
11. Do parents think about what the kids will think of this in the following years? They will be very bothered by it. The privacy of babies still needs to be respected. Really, I don't see any difference between taking a naked picture of a baby and taking a naked picture of a teenager, except that babies are too dumb to know what's going on.