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[quote=Anonymous]It doesn't always start out as a party scene.
This summer, my 14 year old spent a lot of time at friends houses. Sometimes parents were home, sometimes they weren't. These kids are high schoolers, they've been friends for ages, why wouldn't I let my daughter go watch movies or swim at a friend's house instead of spending a day at home?

And sometimes it's several kids. I can't tell you the number of times anywhere from a couple to a half a dozen kids were in my house this summer. I work from home sometimes, so I'm often around, but not always. They know the rules, they were always supervised when they were little. But again, they're high schoolers. And usually, it's kids baking cookies. Or watching movies. Or doing crafts. Or shooting baskets. Or swimming. And you get used to it.

And then kids start doing things they shouldn't. Hopefully parents are around enough to catch this, but it's really easy to miss since kids work to hide it. My daughter's spending the night at a friends house. There are going to be other kids there. I trust the host parents. But I also know they aren't going to be sitting on the kids laps, so things could happen. And I trust the kids. But kids do stupid things. Right now, it's a sleepover. If after the fact we learn there was drinking or whatever, it'll become a party, and I'll be a bad parent for letting my kid go to it. Instead of a reasonable parent, who knows these kids, trusts the parents and kids reasonably or not, who lets her teenager go to a sleepover.

We went to parks and playgrounds when parents were too observant when I was a teenager. Out to the power lines in the woods. You cannot perfectly protect your children.[/quote]

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