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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a small town so no one could get away with much of anything and your reputation was very important. There wasn't much underage drinking, sex, etc among the "good" or "cool" kids, the kids who did had the bad reputations. We were much more into youth group, sports, etc. It was just the culture of our town at the time (90's/00's). My husband grew up here in the DC area and basically all kids drank, did drugs, and had sex and it terrifies me to think of my kids going down the same path. My bio kids are still in elem school and I'm not naive, but I am starting to think about what the next few years holds.

I wasn't allowed to date until I was 16, which I actually really see as a positive, especially these days. I had a lot of great friendships growing up and feel like I had more of a chance to be a kid than if I got sucked into dating younger than that. As soon as I turned 16 I started dating one of my good friends and pretty immediately ONLY hung out with him and when he left for college when I was a rising senior I had no friends left! I have a 15YO stepDD who is , in my opinion, way too focused on boys, her looks, her social media, and dating. Her mom allowed her to start dating boys 1:1 at 12 or 13. I just don't get it. She recently broke up with her boyfriend of over a year and is so "lonely" because she wasted all that time with him. [/quote]

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