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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Child sexual abuse can literally happen anywhere, [b]I don't see any evidence risk is higher at sleepaway camps than anywhere else. [/b]if anything I would think it would be lower because there really aren't any private places at most camps. The risk seems much lower to me than letting your kid do travel sports or music activities where kids are staying in hotels in big groups without their parents and yet that happens all the time.

We miss our kids when they are at camp but they love it, have made life-long friends and come back more confident. My kids are barely in touch with me while at camp (letters are sent/received via snail mail and camp is remote so it takes a while) so they truly have to solve problems themselves. [/quote]

Are you serious? If I were a child molester, over night camps would be one of the top places that I would choose to work at in order to get access to kids without  their parents’ oversight. [/quote]

I am serious. Did you go to sleep away camp? There aren't doors with locks or private spaces, everyone is everywhere. I'd be much more nervous about my kid in a house of worship, a school, participating in a group activity with a parent mentor, or a an overnight trip with a group of kids and teachers/coaches. It is so strange to me that on the thread about kids staying in hotel rooms on travel sports trips everyone seems to think that is fine despite so many examples of coaches sexually abusing kids and yet people freak out about sleep away camp. It seems like it is based on a misguided notion that we can protect our kids if we keep them close. But that is demonstrably false. Larry Nasser abused kids while their parents were in the same room.

At my kids camp, most counselors were once campers there. [/quote]

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