03Lightningrocks wrote:I have a daughter that is grown and married now. I discovered that my daughter had the ability to sort out the good guys from the bad guys. I believe if we raise our kids right, both girls and boys, they will do what is right when we are not in the room. Our daughters will typically gravitate torwards men who show them the same level of respect they get from us as fathers. We accomplish more by spending quality time with our daughters than by spending time telling them what not to do.
That being said... it never hurt to have a "skull-on-a-stick" planted in the front yard.
My point exactly. Anyone here who has ever met my son knows that I'm not a "keep it locked down" kind of father. He had lots of room because he earned the trust. And I have enough friends with daughters who raised them the same way I raised my son. But I also know what
my desires were when I was 16, and anybody who says that most healthy boys don't have similar desires today is either naive or a liar. And that doesn't mean that all lusty boys are wannabe gangbangers (a notion that is disrespectful of men, I might add). It is absolutely natural for a father to want to protect his daughter from the dishonorable intentions of others, and it is not even
CLOSE to being disrespectful. Anyone who would accuse a father who is looking out for his daughter's best interests of being disrespectful of women is simply reaching to try and connect two non-existent dots. I am actually stunned that someone could have that opinion.
I'll tell any guy who has never raised children and who presumes to lecture those who
have, and have done it
successfully, and to twist that parent's words into a nonexistent meaning about disrespecting women, to please do everyone a favor and get a vasectomy before they damage the futures of any potential children of theirs.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, "Those Who Remain"
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