Sexual Assault By Uber Driver on Teen in DC

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Anonymous wrote:I am a parent of teens and college age kids. We use Uber on occasion to help with driving. Those of you who judge, what are you expecting working parents to do exactly?? Kids need to get to & from school, jobs and activities. That means walking, metro and getting rides from us and sometimes Uber. We don't have family or any other "village" to help with driving so we do use Uber Teen when needed. With Uber Teen all the rides are tracked by us in real time, and we are typically on the phone with our kids too.
Walk a mile in my shoes.

Walk a mile in your kids shoes. Get off your ass and be a parent. If you have to work so much that you can’t tend to your kids, then you are living beyond your means.

Who appointed you the judge of good parenting? You know nothing about us, so back off.

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Anonymous wrote:I am a parent of teens and college age kids. We use Uber on occasion to help with driving. Those of you who judge, what are you expecting working parents to do exactly?? Kids need to get to & from school, jobs and activities. That means walking, metro and getting rides from us and sometimes Uber. We don't have family or any other "village" to help with driving so we do use Uber Teen when needed. With Uber Teen all the rides are tracked by us in real time, and we are typically on the phone with our kids too.
Walk a mile in my shoes.

I’m not criticizing, but I do think that if you are not a frequent Uber rider yourself, you do not appreciate how every so often you get a really bad driver - drives horribly, reeks of pot, acts strangely. You can minimize this by only chosing drivers rated above 4.95. Every driver I’ve ever had below 4.9 has something really wrong with them and/or their car. And for the girls especially, ensure they know how to be assertive and that they do not need to talk or answer questions, and that if they feel at ALL uncomfortable, end the ride.

You don’t think the boy felt uncomfortable and wanted to end the ride? You think that the ride just automatically ends?

Well the boy too of course, but as we know, women/girls are especially socialized to be “nice” and this can be taken advantage of.

To end the ride you tell the driver to let you out and end it on the app. If the child doesn’t know how to end the ride early, they shouldn’t be in the uber.

End the ride on the highway or end the ride in bad neighborhood, end the ride in pitch black middle of the night?? Okay.
You people are not rooted in reality, clearly have lived in an entitled bubble and have absolutely zero street smarts. Wow. And you are adults?! You are parents raising children?!

I’m not sure what you’re so mad about. Ending the ride in a “bad” neighborhood is better than staying in the car with a sketchy driver. So your kid should know how to do this.

Your lack of street smarts and comment sense is truly shocking. I’m not going to argue you with you, and I don’t mean to insult you but I promise you that are so way off with that line of thinking. Please don’t advise any young people of this. It’s absolutely horrific and dangerous advice.

?? What are you going on about? If you’re in an uber with a bad driver, you get out. I mean, not on the highway. But you get out and call another uber. Around here I doubt most teens taking ubers home are going through bad neighborhoods and in any event, you are safer in a “bad” neighborhood than with a crazy uber driver.

LOL. DC is one giant bad neighborhood.
And you cannot just get out of a locked, moving car. That is precisely the issue.

It doesn’t seem like you actually have that much useful to contribute.

Anyway - I think it’s reasonable to have a mature teen take Ubers but I’d want to know that they are even-headed enough to get out (or just not get in) if anything feels off. Similar to what they should know to take the Metro. They should be aware of how predators will feel them out by engaging in conversation that starts to feel off. This is really not that different from general street smarts for city kids. (Like I’m still working with my 11 year old to understand that they don’t need to give money to everyone who asks nicely.) And specifically for Uber, I’d want them to know how to end a ride early and get out safely, then call another Uber or 911.

Yeah, so when your 11 year old is held at gunpoint in Uber how does s/he end the ride comfortably?

I'm sorry but there are so many of you that are just bad parents. And yes, I have been robbed and gun point AND assaulted by a cab driver. I would never, ever - not if you paid me - put my child alone in an uber or cab. Some of you have zero risk assessment skills. Your job is to protect your children. They can gain independence in other ways. These "I put my kid in an uber all by herself at 10" stories that make you sound cool at parties is really just sh$t parenting. So selfish

Who let the 12 year olds post? Of course you’ve been robbed at gunpoint, of course you’ve been assaulted by a cab driver.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent of teens and college age kids. We use Uber on occasion to help with driving. Those of you who judge, what are you expecting working parents to do exactly?? Kids need to get to & from school, jobs and activities. That means walking, metro and getting rides from us and sometimes Uber. We don't have family or any other "village" to help with driving so we do use Uber Teen when needed. With Uber Teen all the rides are tracked by us in real time, and we are typically on the phone with our kids too.
Walk a mile in my shoes.

Walk a mile in your kids shoes. Get off your ass and be a parent. If you have to work so much that you can’t tend to your kids, then you are living beyond your means.

Who appointed you the judge of good parenting? You know nothing about us, so back off.

No one needs to be a judge to recognize bad parenting. I know enough that you are that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a parent of teens and college age kids. We use Uber on occasion to help with driving. Those of you who judge, what are you expecting working parents to do exactly?? Kids need to get to & from school, jobs and activities. That means walking, metro and getting rides from us and sometimes Uber. We don't have family or any other "village" to help with driving so we do use Uber Teen when needed. With Uber Teen all the rides are tracked by us in real time, and we are typically on the phone with our kids too.
Walk a mile in my shoes.

Walk a mile in your kids shoes. Get off your ass and be a parent. If you have to work so much that you can’t tend to your kids, then you are living beyond your means.

Who appointed you the judge of good parenting? You know nothing about us, so back off.

You back off.