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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have posted in the past about this subject being the reason why we don't allow sleepovers as a general rule.  I am a criminal defense attorney and I am the one who winds up defending the teenage boy, dad, etc from either an actual offense or a false allegation.  Usually, an actual offense.  Does it happen every day?  No, but it happens very regularly.  And PS, if I did have sons, I would send them someplace else for the evening if there was a sleepover of younger kids going on in my house.  False allegations are crippling for anyone, but they are especially devastating to minors.

Even I have relaxed my absolutely no sleepovers rule and we have hosted some and kids have attended some, but I am very careful about it. [/quote]

Hi defense attorney!  You and I have "sparred" over the past couple years I think, and I am glad to see you have relaxed your rule (as I suspected you might).   I'm a poster here who HAS allowed sleepovers in the past, but now that my kids are getting older, I usually send the older boy to a friend's house the night the younger girl has a sleepover, and vice versa.  And I'm careful to know what is going on in the homes where I send my children.   It's all about being alert and aware and proactive -- NOT paranoid.   But kids are kids and can and will get goofy and inappropriate -- it is important not to have hard and fast rules, but to be flexible and to pay attention.[/quote]

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