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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all the people talking about public transportation, do you really think there’s less risk of sexual assault waiting at a bus stop of walking home after getting off the bus?  My teens do ride the public bus but I tell them to make sure it doesn’t look like anyone is following them off the bus.  That seems to me a much higher risk.  After dark, I’d rather have them take an Uber where the driver is registered, named and tracked — anyone can be on a public bus and get off with you.  Same with metro.

And I would much much rather my teen take an Uber home from a party than get in a car with someone that’s been driving or using weed.  My kid doesn’t drink or use pot and I have a standing “call me and I’ll pick you up” rule but if for some reason I wasn’t available, Uber is 100% a safer choice.

At the end of the day, ever choice has risks.  If your kid takes an Uber to dance lessons because you can’t drive them, is it less risky for them to drop dance?  They may replace that healthy activity with a much riskier way to spend their after school time.

Parenting teens is very difficult and there are very few clear answers.  I felt like the answers were much more binary when they were preschoolers.

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Yes, the bus is absolutely safer. For one, a bus is always safer than a car in terms of accidents. And on or off the bus, you are not shut up in a locked vehicle with a single person. I’m not against sending teens in ubers as a general rule, but the risk is there. In my almost 50yrs on this planet, most of my sketchiest experiences with men have been in cabs/ubers. [/quote]

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