The lesson is: don't have kids - and don't have anything to do with anybody else's kids (see McMartin Preschool, Paula Pondstone and plenty of guys (mostly dads) still imprisoned due to bogus "supressed memory" cases.

Kids sending adults to ruin is a stateless process, (and there are plenty of other states that have easily exploitable laws too).

I know one guy sentenced to 30 years for patting a 14 year old (fully clothed in ski gear) on the ass, once, in South Dakota.

And if they don't get you legally, you'll be bailing them out of jail, and that couple hundred thousand each to get them through college will get you anyway.

Having kids is just not a rational thing to do.

His sister asked me to read it (before he went to trial) for my opinion. That was the sum total of actual acts charged. I didn't see that they had a case, but it was in the wrong state at the wrong time (repressed memory hysteria, McMartin and all the rest going on) with the wrong DA.

The jury just didn't want this immoral sexual abuse of children in Salem (er, I mean South Dakota).