Effect of nudity of kids

The following 4 paragraphs was taken from Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudity.

There are differences of opinion as to whether, and if so to what extent, parents should appear naked in front of their children. Gordon and Schroeder^[5] report that parental nudity varies considerably from family to family. They say that “there is nothing inherently wrong with bathing with children or otherwise appearing naked in front of them”, noting that doing so may provide an opportunity for parents to provide important information. They note that by ages 5 to 6 children begin to develop a sense of modesty, and recommend to parents who wish to be sensitive to their children’s wishes that they limit such activities from that age onwards.

Bonner^[6] recommends against nudity in the home if children exhibit sexual play of a type that is considered problematic.

A United States study by Alfred Kinsey found that 75% of the participants stated that there was never nudity in the home when they were growing up, 5% of the participants said that there was “seldom” nudity in the home, 3% said “often”, and 17% said that it was “usual”. The study found that there was no significant difference between what was reported by men and by women with respect to frequency of nudity in the home.^[7]

In a 1995 review of the literature, Paul Okami concluded that there was no reliable evidence linking exposure to parental nudity to any negative effect.^[8] Three years later, his team finished an 18-year longitudinal study that showed that, if anything, such exposure was associated with slight beneficial effects, particularly for boys.^[9]

Here’s my son Bernard having fun in the tub.

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”  Albert Einstein

The man who tried to flee police by leaping into a storm-swollen Campbell creek 10 days ago made it almost nine miles away. But Ut “Johnny” Nguyen didn’t escape.

Santa Clara emergency workers pulled the 37-year-old man’s body from the San Tomas Aquino Creek about 12:30 p.m. Monday He was floating facedown in a matted tangle of branches and reeds where a passer-by spotted him near Mission College Boulevard and Agnew Road, police said.

“We were never 100 percent sure he had drowned, although that appeared to be the overwhelming likelihood,” said Campbell Police Capt. Dave Carmichael. “Until you can positively confirm that was the case we were still treating it as a missing persons case.”

The tragic twist to Nguyen’s death is that even if he had been busted that day that cops were knocking on the door, he most likely would have ended up with a relatively light sentence. Nguyen had a $30,000 warrant for identity theft. He was believed to have lived in San Jose and the Sacramento area.

The maximum sentence, for one count of felony identity theft, for example, is three years in prison.

But authorities weren’t even looking for him that day.

“It certainly wasn’t worth jumping,” Carmichael said.

Nguyen made his fatal run on the morning of Jan. 22 when the officers from the Postal Service knocked on the front door of a house on Buddlawn Way in Campbell that he was visiting. The inspectors contacted a person of interest at the home and then left. A Campbell officer who was there to assist postal inspectors saw Nguyen burst from the rear of the house, hurdle a fence and leap into the raging creek. Engorged with the rain from that week’s series of winter storms, the normally placid creek was basically a white-water river and the man was quickly swept away.

The last anyone saw him — until Monday — was when he was swept under a bridge downstream.

Campbell police quickly identified Nguyen. But despite regular forays with dirt bikes down the creek, which flows toward Alviso, they couldn’t find any sign of him.

Carmichael said Nguyen’s body may have been obscured by flood debris.

The Santa Clara County’s Medical Examiner’s office identified the body, helped by Nguyen’s distinctive dragon tattoo.

Contact Sean Webby at 408-920-5003.

Posted: Thursday, 21 January 2010 9:23AM
Campbell police combing creek for drowned man’s body
CAMPBELL — A man fleeing from police drowned yesterday, after jumping into a fast-moving creek in Campbell. Police officers were serving an unrelated search warrant, when the man took off running — thinking the police were coming for him.
He jumped into a creek near San Tomas Expressway. The water was about 10 feet deep, and moving at 20 mph.
Firefighters tried to fish the man out, but he disappeared. His body was not immediately recovered.