It's fairly good advice for any organization where an adult has complete control over children. This "control" is far more evident in the scouts and in the public schools, for instance; but such precautions can keep another "McMartin" situation from happening. It never hurts to CYA.

Yeah, it can, and the scouts are a good example.

co-worker is a Cub Scout leader. He tells me that because of restrictions designed to "protect" children that were recently instituted he can no longer:

(1) Drive a child home if their parent can't pick them up. (2) Remove a disruptive child from the group to calm him/her down. (3) Go with a child to the "bathroom" in the woods. (4) Clean up a child who wets his or her pants.

Plus some others I forgot about.

Yes, this policy may prevent a very small (proportionately to the number of chilren) number of cases of child molestation, but it creates discomfort for a much larger proportion of children.