Hmm, I'm not sure, Pan. I'll have to sleep on that. I've just re-read the thread, and whilst there is undoubtedly some pitch-forking going on, it is, to be fair, directed at a particular image of a particular man, who in this instance, throughly deserves the sentiment.
I don't think that all men are dubious by any means. In fact, I think the society we live in today is very, very sad. A man would think thrice about helping a crying child in the street these days, and that is not good. I don't believe that, per capita, there are any more paedophiles around than there ever were.
One interesting question is thrown up by this thread, though. Whose children are these? Are they orphans? Have they been kidnapped? Is he baby-sitting them? Whose babies are these?