Men are also very afraid of interacting and engaging with kids because they’re afraid they’ll be called a pedophile. Sometimes they can be afraid to do things with their own children out of fear of being labeled as a pedophile.
Why do you think there are so many female elementary school teachers and very few male ones? Not saying that’s a bad thing, but it reflects this notion that people aren’t comfortable having their children around men as much as they are with women.