I'm still confused and taken aback. You're not related to the children (either directly or indirectly, say by teaching them a sport). *Showing* you photos is one thing, and is benign natural sharing of lives between friendly colleagues. Giving you photos is quite another. Also -- this does not apply to you -- but it's far from harmless potentially. What a way to feed into some pedophile's or other deranged person's delusions of claim to someone else's child? The possibility there gives me chills. That they think this is okay displays a woeful lack of appropriate boundaries. (I would never dream of handing people photos of my dogs for the same reason. What the hell? Why would anyone want such a thing? I say that as someone who occasionally gets asked for photo or video for training purposes, and I do the same with other people in my sport club because that's a good way to learn or look for inspiration. That's a sensible reason, and if the person being asked declines people respect it (apart from video taken during competition, which we all agree to as part of participating). Some person (friend or not) I work with? LOL, no!)