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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]As long as you know the family and the kid, I don't see why you wouldn't allow it.[/b]  I'm less comfortable with large-group sleepovers than one-on-one, which I generally think are fine.  I agree with the PP that said the sleep deprivation of the kid and cranky attitude the next day make sleepovers unappealing to me, but I don't disallow them except when we have other things going on that will be severely impacted by my kid being super tired.  Also, I do limit how often.[/quote]

A guy I dated in high school spent a year in prison in his thirties for charges relating to trying (and maybe succeeding?, I don’t know the specifics) to get a minor to have sex with him. I had spent more time one-on-one with him than I ever will with any of my children’s friends’ dads. I knew this guy’s family. They were a very wholesome, religious family and the guy was very respectful and even somewhat timid. I would never in a million years have suspected him of future creepy behavior.

One of my dd’s friends has no contact with her father because he’s in prison for being a purveyor of child pornography. Her mother married the guy and had children with him having no idea.

My kids will be able to attend sleepovers in 8th-9th grade if I feel like they’d know what to do and follow through if something turned inappropriate, but I think my kids would have been paralyzed with fear if someone had tried something with them in 2nd-4th grade. We talk about these things and I coach them on how to handle it, but I know my kids and I just think they would have froze up when they were younger. They are extremely reluctant to stand up to adults.[/quote]

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