Have heard mixed reviews of Falling skies, will check out your suggestions thanks.

Falling Skies is back in a few weeks
Game of Thrones
Revolution
Continuum
Defiance

Huh...I think that's actually about it.

Question is now what is worth watching until November?
Benedict Cucumberbatch is probably to busy being evil trek villian for more Sherlock.

Oh my.

The screwdriver as magic wand thing really annoys me. Mostly because it's just lazy writing.

This also completely confirms my basest political prejudices, so thanks for that.

I dunno, seems like anyplace worth staying is worth fighting for, and anyplace not worth fighting for isn't worth staying in. Good fortune to you in any case.

But you ignored the second part of what I said. What could possibly cause you to subject yourself and your family to people who are so deeply sick in their souls? Go somewhere else!

The reason you're so justifiably angry is that this isn't just about kids' sports teams or even sexual mores. The world has lots of evil in it, but people who see evil everywhere they look are inevitably projecting something ugly in themselves.

There's a good chance that eventually they will either crush your soul or make you one of them. Sounds like they've already made a pretty good start on the "soul crushing" part.

And no, Dan has not nailed it, your experience is not normative, and there are better places you can go. Maybe fairly close by. I can't think of any state in the Union that could be uniformly as awful as what you describe.

And speaking of which: seriously, where are you? I can well understand why you wouldn't want to give enough detail to be identified individually, but throw me a bone. Red/blue, urban/rural, East/West, religious/secular? I tried to think of any place in the US that I loathe enough to preemptively accuse it of the being the setting of your story, and I came up empty.

Broken? It certainly is. Fight it? How does one go about doing that? When every objection you make and and every step makes you look more like some sort of weirdo? "Why exactly is this guy so upset about this? Why is he so insistent on working with kids? He can't love it for the simple love of doing it. There HAS to be some dark reason behind it." This IS the mindset I have run into and it is exactly why I have simply given up. You cannot fight mindsets like that. Everything you say or do makes you guilty. As for the precautions mentioned, I have never once been with the kids when their parents weren't right there. Same goes for the rest of the coaches. It makes no sense because there is no sense to be made. It's sheer paranoia and no rationality can be injected. There comes a time when the fight is lost, and this one appears to be. Yes I am bitter and I apologize for the tone of my previous. This discussion hit a nerve.

First, let me say how sorry I am for you, the other coaches and the kids. That's a tragic story.

Secondly, I never claimed that this flavor of paranoia is never a problem in the US. I merely pointed out that it's not universal.

Thirdly, where the hell do you live and why haven't you left!? Seriously, if this is an honest portrayal of your experience, you either need to man up and fight or get the hell outta Dodge. It's a big country; you can do better.

What's driving this paranoia in your area? Have there been multiple abductions or abuse cases receiving lots of media coverage? Racial tensions spilling over into general mistrust? Self-appointed witch hunters stirring up panic? Pod people?

Via friends, family, and business associates, I know parents in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Maine, Tennessee, Ohio, Massachusetts, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. That's just off the top of my head.

I've never heard a personal story as sad as yours from any of those places. I would remember, because I would have been hopping mad. When I encounter similar stories about the UK I am hopping mad, along with a lot of other US readers.

As a sanity check, I asked a few other dads at work about their experience volunteering with other people's kids. While everyone agreed that you need to use basic good judgement -- not giving a car ride to an individual child, for example, especially if you don't know both the child and parents well -- nobody had a bad experience to report.

Obviously, people do get falsely accused, sometimes with horrific results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial. But the one salutary effect of these disasters is that more people come to realize that there are not actually Satanic ritual child abusers hiding behind every bush.

So while I don't want to minimize the reality and pain of what you've been through, your story is clearly the exception.

And if you don't agree, well then for the sake of your kids and everybody else's, you need to get out and do something about it, because the world you describe is BROKEN.

I am guessing you have not been in a similar position, since you seem fairly sure this attitude is not prevalent. Being a parent with kids, and trying to WORK with kids are two entirely different things. I've been in both places (I have three girls - now all late teens) and I can tell you that there is a world of difference in how a man working with and teaching kids is perceived as opposed to a woman doing the same. Dan is spot on here. And it's a shame. I for one refuse to work with kids anymore. And so do most of my coaching friends - we have found other things to do to help people. As long as "people" are all over 18 or so. Who loses here? We do as coaches since working with kids can be one of the most rewarding things you can do, and so do the kids. In all the years I coached there was never a single incident with any of the kids, while I have personal knowledge of several incidents with the kids and family members. One such incident was related to me by the kid and resulted in an investigation. Funny how the kid trusted *me* to look out for her, but not her own family.

Don't tell me this isn't a problem in the US. If you do, you are simply ignorant.