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[quote=Anonymous]Another great question.

When Scouts BSA Troop 248 for Girls goes camping, we take along our trained Scoutmasters and a good number of chaperone parents.  We follow the BSA system of youth protection that provides a set of protective practices too lengthy to discuss in this posting.  However, a good summary is that Scouts are never allowed to be alone.  They must always have at least one buddy with them when doing anything, especially when going to washroom or shower facilities.  These are segregated by sex and further separated between adults and youth.  Adults are prohibited from any one-on-one contact with a youth, including in-person and on-line contact.  Two adults must always be present when interacting with a youth, and at least one must be female.

Weekend camping is easy.  We are usually camping in a site by ourselves, so keeping the Scouts safe and separated from others is pretty easy.

At the summer camp we attend, there are twenty other all-girl and all-boy Troops present on a 200-acre parcel.  Girls in Scouts BSA are very common and not a rarity.  Each Troop camps in its own site and other Scouts are not allowed to enter unless invited by the Troop leadership for a special event (shared meal, etc.).  The entire parcel and the larger Scout Reservation within which it sits, are patrolled by law enforcement.  Given the modern era of youth protection, there is simply no exceptions to the youth protection rules, and any adult leader who does not cooperate in strictly enforcing them is immediately removed from Scouting.  Actual abuse has been very rare in Scouting since the youth protection procedures were strengthened years ago.  
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