[user104658]

Originally Posted by Glenn.

I don’t get how you have to have children to have some unholy advantage over people that don’t. It’s ludicrous. I have nieces and young children in my family. Why don’t I get to have an opinion?

"I don't get how experience increases knowledge" is what you've just said. Think about it for a second or two and (hopefully) it doesn't need explained?

"I just don't get how driving racing cars for 15 years gives someone an advantage in driving ability over someone who hasn't? My gradad lends me his Fiat 500 every weekend, why can't I compete?"

I'm not saying that everyone with kids is an expert, or that everyone gets it right, not by a long shot. I am however saying that someone who is childless has no idea what goes into child safeguarding every day. Pretending that you do is just sad, and LARPing as something that you're not. It's not a life experience that you have - so you know less about it! That's life! It's no "offensive".