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[quote=Anonymous]We were at the neighborhood pool this weekend.

During the adult swim, I noticed a boy and girl walking by holding hands.  Based off the size of the kids and their faces, I would guess they were about 4th grade at the absolute oldest.  The were cute "popular" looking kids.  They could have been younger, but not likely, and based on my small for the grade 6th grader and his friends, and the fourth graders in our neighborhood, I highly doubt they were older than 10.

Later, I am in the pool and this same boy and girl are swimming right next to me.  They are snuggling together in the water, the boy was picking her up and cradling her in his arms for most of the time.  At one point, he appeared to group her chest, and he was definitely rubbing her back, behind, etc as he held her.  There was another boy and girl hanging out with them, but those two kept an age appropriate and normal distance from each other.  The "couple" were all over each other.  No kissing, but for a couple of half dressed 10 year olds it was way over the line.

They were at the age for our pool that they would have to have had parents with them.  Because of this, I bit my tongue even though I really, really wanted to say something (and I am 99% of the time a very butt out of it kind of person).  They were openly acting like I might expect a couple of high school kids to act (but not at a public family pool in the middle of the day)

I can't believe their parents were fine with this behavior, but apparently they were because the kids were so open with it.

Would you have said something?  Would you have been okay with this if it were your fourth grade son or daughter?  I have never seen kids this young act so openly sexual with each other, in front of their parents, neighbors and who knows who else.  If they are like this in the middle of the day at the pool with all those people around, I can't imagine what they are doing after school before mom and dad get off work or when they are hanging out in the neighborhood outside.[/quote]

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