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Originally Posted by Marie
Soooo...if in the future you have a 14 yr old daughter chatting on the phone w/a man who is at least 20 yrs older than her in the middle of the night, and you can't personally attest to what the conversations are about, then you will be cool with this?
I guess what I am stuck on is that it is a parent's job to protect their child. Something like this (the 14 - 30+ coed friendship) seems like a glaring risk. To chalk it up to a unique and special friendship (I think that we can all admit that this is not the norm) just seems negligent.
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I guess I can't really say what I would do with a teen daughter - it's a long way off since I don't even want to think about pregnancy right now! (
) But I would really hope that I would know enough about any children that I might have to be able to judge whether or not any friendships they might have, regardless of age and sex differences, are appropriate and healthy. It just seems to me like every person and every friendship could be one way or another.