It doesn’t help that it’s also kind of reminiscent of the second beat of Saturday Night Live’ s “Kissing Family” sketch, the one that happens between father and son just when the audience is beginning to realize something weird is afoot.

Part of the reason that kisses like these stir up uncomfortable conversations is that Americans haven’t really decided what’s a normal amount of affection between parents and children.

In 2010, the Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at UCLA told parenting website CafeMom that allowing one’s kids to kiss you on the mouth is a dangerous road.

“Parents do loads of things with kids that sexual partners will later do, e.g. backrub, bath, hugging, laying with them in their bed, holding them close and cuddling, and, yes, kissing them on the lips,” Dr. Psych Mom wrote in 2014.

Arguing for the other side, a columnist for The New York Post’ s living section wrote in 2017, “One of my friends tells her son that no one in the world will ever love him more than she does.