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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP -- it's not the question of a 14 year old riding the bus alone. It's a question of how many creeps there are in the world. For the people who accused OP of being overprotective -- you may have ridden the bus when you were kids, but times are different.

I walked home from a friend's house in the daylight when I was 16. Two men grabbed me and kidnapped me and attempted to rape me repeatedly. I wouldn't allow a 14 year old to ride a bus alone. All it takes is one day and one creep. I'm really lucky to be alive.[/quote]

PP, I am sorry about what happened to you. Thankfully, these are indeed different times: statistically speaking, thanks to better policing, better psych meds, more awareness of sexual harassment and crimes against children, and other factors, there are actually fewer creeps in the world than there were 20-30 years ago. Not to say that anyone is guaranteed not to encounter them, but the probability of what happened to you happening to any given person was pretty small to begin with, and it is even smaller now.

Finally, self-defense classes and plain old common sense are always a good idea, but girls do not acquire super-powers and the ability to repel any attacker when they turn 16, or 18, or 35 for that matter. And I would not want to raise my daughter to think that simply by virtue of being a woman, she is never safe anywhere and should never walk alone. [/quote]

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