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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
THIS IS JUST MY OPINION.
I think for most parents, you want your offspring to follow in your footsteps, especially in the things you hold close to you -- sorority/fraternity membership whereas your siblings not so much because they're not your offspring and typically siblings do things differently anyway.
As parents, we mold our children and show them the light -- how to live right, manners, attire, education, sorority/fraternity affiliation -- and hope that our training while they are young will follow them in their adult years. It crushes a parent (MY SPECULATION) when their child "rejects" the parent's organization/ways and CHOOSES another organization/ways.
If my unborn, unconceived daughter chose another sorority and not DST, I would be hurt but ultimately I did show my daughter the importance of sisterhood, scholarship, and service which is the underlying principles of all sororities. If she does not find DST a best fit, but finds it with another org, I would celebrate her choice for her.
I'm wise and brave with the unconceived daughter.
Time to go mentor. 
ETA: And with the way our world is changing around us, there are bigger fish to fry than if my daughter wears DST on her chest.
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I agree with with most of what you said except the "celebrating her choice" part.
But once again, my opinion is quite clearly stated in
this thread 
And of course there are "bigger fish to fry", "with the way our world is changing" I would be happy that my child is in college and acccomplished enough to be selected by a sorority, however that would not lessen the negative feelings I would have if she chose another sorority over Alpha Kappa Alpha. I consider membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha so much more than letters on a chest.
