And what about the USPS?
Have you seen the touching Postal Service.ad in which a mother sends a photo Christmas ornament to her husband away in the military? The children are in the bathtub. And now I read about a Wal-Mart whose employees called the police after seeing typical naked-children-playing pictures go through the one hour processing.

"In a case where child pornography or abuse is suspected, the photos are brought to the attention of the store management and a determination is made to contact law enforcement," said Cynthia Illick, corporate spokeswoman for Wal-Mart in Bentonville, Ark. "We always err on the side of safety when it comes to children."

I’m glad our kids are past that stage, because I know I’ve taken some pictures that would meet Wal-Mart’s call the cops criteria. I’ve appeared in some, too. (I mean as a toddler - my father was a photographer. A photographer who documented every part of my life as though I were a member of the Royal family. Luckily, things were less stringent then and we had a darkroom at home.) The home darkroom is a nice idea, although it is probably the real refuge of the serious perverts, too.

Don’t worry, Em. I do not yet know how to post pictures here, so I can’t put up the one of Fran, Bridget and you in the big old-fashioned bathtub with Daddy. (Just for the curious or perverse minds here, that picture was taken about twenty years ago, not last summer.)