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[quote=Anonymous]Why is this buried in the older kids forum? My similar post was deleted from general parenting and I"m pissed.

This is a lesson and something all parents should pay attention to. I'm devastated reading what happened to that poor girl. Not just the rape, but those boys saying "i'll give you 3 bucks to urinate on her" and so on. You don't start raising boys to be decent human beings when they are 10 or 12 or 14 or 16. You don't wait until they are teenagers to notice that they are turning into little monsters.

And with our girls, you don't wait until they are older to start instilling some caution in them. And, this is NOT victim blaming, it's self preservation. She should not have been raped no matter how drunk she'd gotten. But, drinking that much was dangerous. It made her unaware of her surroundings and vulnerable to any sort of crime (mugging, rape) not to mention alcohol poisoning, death from drunk driving, etc.

I drank too much in college, I let myself become vulnerable in similar ways and I'm so lucky that nothing that bad ever happened. How can we teach our girls to better protect themselves?

And how do we avoid raising monsters? How does that happen? I'm sure each of those boys were lovely little babies just like I have. Mine is still at home with me. Still crawls into my bed at night, still wants to please his mama. Still the sweetest creature I know. Were these boys sweet creatures once? What happened?

How is this an older kids issue exclusively? [/quote]

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