Is there anything Wrong for Dads to Kiss thier Daughters on the Lips - How weird is it?

How right is it? kissing your female children on their lips as a dad or your son as a mother.

Kissing your daughter on her lips could be a little weird for me but, One family who clearly doesn’t share my feelings on this topic are the Beckhams. Yesterday, David Beckham shared a photo of himself kissing his daughter on the lips.

The comments on the photo are less than complimentary. ‘Unfollow, this is just wrong!’ ‘Am I the only one who thinks this is weird?’ they read. Yes, Victoria experienced fall out for her picture, but nothing on the comments posted on David’s.

A man kissing his daughter is, it seems, much more objectionable than a woman doing so.

Now forgive me, but if you think that kissing your child on the lips is a completely non-sexual, non-romantic thing to do, then why does it make any difference whether the person kissing them is male or female?

When Victoria posted the picture, there was a slew of defence claiming, ‘it’s innocent’, ‘it’s lovely’. And while I disagree that anyone should be kissing children on their lips, if you think that a mother kissing her daughter on the lips is perfectly normal then how can you possibly think that it’s different for a father?

The unspoken subtext here is that it’s fine to kiss a child of your own gender on the lips, but when you do it to a child of the opposite gender it becomes somehow sexual.

Perhaps it’s just because it looks more reminiscent of an adult heterosexual kiss, but I can’t help thinking that it’s something more worrying than that – motivated by an insinuation of abuse.

So what is your take on this issue?