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In my opinion, it's something that is getting worse - not better!
I'm not sure it's getting worse, AP and Austin Mitchell were whining about it in the early 90's.
The realities are I'm afraid, that pedophiles use cameras. they don't all use P&S's. They don't all take photos of kids in the nude, just as some of use find a photo of a woman who's showing very little, glimpse of cleavage or stocking or leg or whatever to be sexy, so do some pedophiles when shown a child in the same sort of pose, or revealing the same thing.
On the other side of the coin, not all photographers are pedophiles.
But the lack of understand is on both sides. The arrogant insistence that photographers should be able to do whatever they like is just as bad as the jobs worth insisting you can't.
Asking first saves a great deal of trouble. Respect for other peoples wishes does as well. Yes, in theory you may have a 'right' to photograph whatever you like. In practice that right is actually just the absence of anything to stop you. By the same token parents have the same degree of right to ask you not too.
Some understanding on both sides would solve the majority of this issue, but I suspect I have more chance of seeing a unicorn.