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Besides child molesters, the scouts also have a single mom problem at least in my experience.

My son wanted to join a couple years ago because he naively thought the scouts did a lot of camping.

It turns out my son's troop was headed up by a lady and most of the parents were single moms. Needless to say, the majority of the scouting activities seemed to revolve around arts and crafts type things.

I think most of the single moms signed their sons up for the scouts because they wanted some sort of manly influence in their family. Not just for their sons but in their life too. The problem is that they turned the whole experience into something so lacking in testosterone that I could not stand to in the room with them more than five minutes. Tip for single ladies, if you want more stable men in your life, you should eat better, exercise, get more sleep, dress better and try projecting a cheerful attitude.

In any case, they only had one camping trip the entire year. It was actually sponsored by the council not our troop. I was the only one from our troop to show up so my son and I had to hang with another troop that was headed up by a guy that I knew.

We quit scouting the next week. This was around the time that they let gay scouts join. They all thought I quit because of the gay scout thing and tried to talk us into rejoining. Apparently, they lost a lot of families around that time but I bet the single moms are still there. My guess is the chance of a child getting molested skyrockets if one is raised by a single mom.

My other peeve with the scouts is the constant begging for money. How much money does it take to run a scout troop? The church donated the space and we had to pay extra for the uniform, books and everything. The local and national council appeared to act more like a multilevel marketing scheme than an organization for young men. They only showed up to talk about money, money, money. Apparently, like a two dollar trollop , they will do practically anything for money.

IDK, I grew up as a Boy Scout but my scoutmaster, a Navy vet, contributed a great deal in terms of materials we would use over and over, in scouting. He was one of the better Scoutmasters out there but he left this Earth four years ago, and was finished as a Scoutmaster due to a bad case of cancer a few months earlier. I don’t see scouting for my son in the future, I rather see myself teaching him what scouting would, as his father.