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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously boys need to be taught how to behave. But I'm a little concerned that most posters here seem to shy away from teaching girls basic behavior as well.

I don't have any daughters (just a handful of sons), but if I did, I would strive to instill in her not only basic safety steps, but also sufficient self esteem so that she wouldn't buckle under pressure to put out or put herself in a dangerous position just because a boy she hardly knows has shown a little interest in her.

Before I get flamed for blaming the victim (which I'm not), let me explain. Some posters have essentially written off parental responsibility by saying that kids away at college are going to do whatever the hell they want. True, but hopefully your kid will have a good moral compass, good self esteem, and a sense of personal responsibility when you send them off. And hopefully they'll be a good judge of character and surround themselves with good people...and not rent friends for four years and opt to be a lemming. [/quote]

I posted about my rape back toward the beginning of this thread.  It was on my 21st birthday.  I was a college student, but home on summer break.  The rapist was a college student, someone one of my two closet friends knew from school.  We ran into him out at the bar where we were celebrating my birthday.  He bought me a beer.  I wasn't interested in him.  I didn't go home with him.  The two women he was with drove my friend and I home, and somehow, he ended up coming back to my parents' house with us.  My parents were home and awake when we got there - I remember my dad and my sister sitting out on the back deck with us.  I don't remember going up to bed, but I have flashes of what happened after that.  He raped me on the floor of my bedroom, while my friend slept in the same room, and my parents slept 30 feet away.

My parents taught me good judgement.  My lapse: I accepted a beer from a friend of a good friend.[/quote]

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