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[quote=Anonymous]I would talk with your daughter and your spouse/partner if there's one in the picture and brainstorm so you cover all your bases and everyone's in agreement (or at least understands even if not agrees with other people's concerns and points of view).

Some ideas:

1. How would a family handle ANY sleepover of opposite-sex heterosexual or same-sex homosexual friend or friends?

2.  Who should know who is what?  E.g., should the invited friend know the invitee is gay vs. straight, whether he/she is actually attracted to the invited guest, etc?  There's a "right to know" to some extent, so all parties can make reasonably informed decisions about their own lives, right?

3. What are the parents' expectations?  Probably that there is reasonable adult oversight -- what would that entail?  Open-door policy at all times?  Information of some other sort? What else?

4. No one wants to feel duped or lied to. So what will it take to achieve that?

5. On the other hand, people have a reasonable expectation of privacy--what should be private?  Is there a way to balance privacy with information? If not, should the sleep over be canceled?

Things like that, I guess... [/quote]

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