As long as you can’t see their faces why not?
It might help to break down the taboo around wearing diapers.

@Pete, if they're posting them on Facebook, you can probably see their faces.

@MommaKate, I think your instincts are correct. I've seen friends post similar pictures, not regularly, but but still seen them. Usually people are just posting cute pictures of their kids, but they don't use much discretion. As an example, one of my friends posted a picture with the caption, "sister pile", of her girls sleeping. One was about 3 or 4, and the other is 6 or 7. Both of their nighties were hiked up enough to show their diapers. Not only is it potentially embarrassing for the kids in the future, but on a dad's group I'm on a guy posted a link to warn us about why we need to keep all kids picture private. It was a link to Russian picture sharing site, similar in nature to something like flickr ... except with almost no oversight, so aside from normal photo sharing, it was used as a repository for the weird and distasteful. If you searched the word "diapers", it brought up thousands of pictures of young kids, and bedwetters in diapers, obviously scavenged from social media and boss, organized into folders by what I can only describe as pedophiles. The fact the photos weren't pornographic themselves didn't hide the intention of the lurid, disgusting, captions and comments.

I just saw this when coming onto the site and I have to say I find it really disturbing

I find it disturbing when I've seen people put nude pic's of their baby's on FB.... I warned someone on my friend's list that I played a FB game with and had never met and she told he she just shared these pic's with her friends.... I'd never met this woman... She had no idea who I was...…
This could really humiliating for their children it can be dangerous with regards to predators..... You want to build your child's esteem not tear it down....And kids can be really cruel

If these kids want to be advocates when they're ready to that's great!!!.....I believe advocacy empowers us.... This has been taken out of their hands though completely

I would probably send a link to the post to CPS in your area and let them decide what should or shouldn't be done

I sure wouldn't want some creep fantasizing about my child ya know..... Big hug.....I think this is an important topic...…. Way too much is sometimes shared on social media.....xo

Glad to hear I’m not alone in my no pictures of the kids not fully clothed once past toddler age. And like one of you said it’s not that they are doing it on purpose they are just posting cute pictures of there kids like we all do some of them just happen to be showing there diapers and they don’t snap to what they are posting. I have questioned one of my friends and she was like oh yea I realized that after I posted it. I’m thinking ok then why don’t you delete it. Lol

I am 13 and wear cloth diapers& p.pants at night.I showed my mom your post.She thought it was disgraceful that a mom would do this to her kids.She went on to say kids like us have a tough enough time now and there is nothing cute about an older child in diapers!!!

As a teen who still wears diapers....as innocent as the oucs may seem, sharing outside of family is just wrong! No older kid wants their diapers seen while wearing them for outsiders to see or public people.

i think this is so not right

I just hope this post brings some awareness to some people that obviously don’t think about what they post. The friend that posted the video of her son on the hover board posted another picture today that was even worse. I said something to her and she pretty much told me to mind my own business and unfriended me. Oh well I was just trying to help her kid. Send me a message if you want the details.

I have very little social media presence and don't share pictures of my children so I'm not sure I should be commenting, but think there might be an interesting counter point. What if the pictures were identical but showed underwear instead of diapers or pull-ups? Would those same pictures be appropriate? Taking that one step further, bedwetting at age 5 to 7 or so is really common, so kids that age wearing diapers or pull-ups/goodnites is also really common. Should it be a big deal that it's known that a child wets the bed at that age? I know it would be easier for my daughter for sleepovers and such if we know that some of her friends wet the bed too. Since bedwetting is a bit of a taboo it's hard to bring up.

At some point it's obviously inappropriate, maybe by around 8, and certainly by 10. But at 4? I'm not quite as sure.

I agree with you Amy, younger kids I could see, but these kids are over 7 closer to 10. So definitely past the “normal” range. I hate to say normal because just because a certain kid or even adult wets the bed doesn’t mean they aren’t normal, I guess it’s just past the common stage.

@amy i think there are two problems here.

One is the aforementioned image mining. There are people with bad intentions that may be taking and distributing these images for sexual purposes. For some reason, pictures of older kids in diapers seem to be a special interest.

Second, due to the nature of social media, these images are going to stick around. This isn't a here today and gone tomorrow kind of thing. That 6 and 7 year old that might not be embarrassed now (but then again they might, if they knew every one of mommies friends was seeing that picture) may be mortified at age 11 when the class bully finds that picture and texts it to everybody they know. Even if bedwetting is really common, the psychological trauma isn't worth risking. It's a really big deal to the kids, or others experiencing, even if they aren't experiencing bedwetting anymore, but especially if they are.