A Queensland mother has drawn criticism after saying she does not let her husband, her children’s father, bathe their daughters because “they have different parts”.
The Facebook post that she sent public yesterday, and seen by MailOnline, has attracted huge media and social attention.
“So hubby is upset with me because I have told him that I don’t want him to wash our two daughters in the bath or shower, I just don’t feel comfortable for a man to do this,” the Facebook post reads.
“I have said I don’t have any issues with him bathing our son, I just believe girls should be washed by their mothers and boys by their fathers. It’s got to do with the fact that mums and daughters have the same parts, the same goes for men and their sons.”
The woman, who has remained unidentified, says her husband thinks she “thinks ill” of him.
Then, bizarrely, she says: “With how people play the ‘I was molested card’ so very often these days, I just don’t want in any way to give my kids the chance to even think about it.”
Firstly, allegations of molestation is not “playing a card”. Secondly, lumping her husband in with accused paedophiles is problematic to say the least – something the public has been quick to point out.
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Speaking on breakfast show Today, co-host Deb Knight said she was “saddened” by the post’s implication.