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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I'm really troubled by this post - you seem to be sending the message to her that she should fear all of her friends' fathers. Just ask some basic questions and let her go![/quote]

I am also troubled.

There was another thread about parents worried about kids hanging out in a classroom with a male teacher during lunch/after school.  They're worried about potential molestation!

I feel sorry for our kids.

And you wonder why children have so much anxiety these days, it's from their parents! [/quote]

Small tangent- I had a classmate who was always hanging out with a female teacher after school, getting "tutoring" or whatever.

They openly dated a few years later.

There's no reason to be "hanging out" with a teacher after school.  Teachers are just not that cool.  People are over-protective about this stuff because there are lots of weirdos out there, and it doesn't mean we have to be afraid, just a bit vigilant.[/quote]

This is a perfect example. So because your friend developed a lesbian relationship with her teacher, you are now concerned that this could happen to your child or someone else. When you're over vigilant because you think there are a lot 'wierdos' out there, you prevent your child from doing normal, healthy developmental things such as develop a special teacher-student relationship, for example. Or, back to the main topic, allow your child to have unstructured social time at sleepover parties.

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Nope, not a lesbian relationship, the teacher was female and the student was male!

What I mean is, you need to be vigilant without being a helicopter.  And people will come to different conclusions without anyone necessarily being wrong.  I don't know what happens in other people's houses and I don't want to know.  There are issues other than molestation, there's the pp who was talking about her DH being an alcoholic, there's mental illness.  My mother is mentally ill and she can hold it together really well during the day but then the sun goes down and so does she.  [/quote]

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