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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fear about sex abuse is surprising to me. For the people worried about this, do your kids participate in sports, go to school, do scouting, go to church/temple? Those all seem just as high risk as sleepaway camp.[/quote]

Logistically, there is more opportunity at sleep away camp.[/quote]

I would push back on that. There are not really private places at camp - we were always in big groups with multiple campers and counselors. [b] At churches/temples kids are more likely to be working one on one with an adult[/b]. Similarly, at my kids' camps they sleep in big bunks with about 15 people, vs the smaller tents used for a boy scout camping trip. My DH deals with childhood sexual abuse as part of his job and had no problem sending our kids to sleepaway camp but had real concerns with scouting. [/quote]

I am sorry, but no church employee is dumb enough anymore to do anything one on one with a child. Even in high school in the 90's, when I told my youth pastor I was suicidal, we met at Starbucks and talked. Not his office at the church. [/quote]

Uhhh MANY churches still do private meetings. It’s called “confession” or in Mormonism it’s meetings with your bishop (who is some random dude). It’s completely inappropriate and horrible and a big reason I don’t like organized religion. [/quote]

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