Virginity and Going Away To College

great_lakes_mom
Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:50:09 +0000

Sex does not seem the primary issue here. It could be a key issue, if unprotected. But the rest, the drinking, no seatbelts, general mayhem and violence, are life threatening. So sad for both your daughter and her friend. I feel for your D, witnessing all this from afar. A point is demonstrated here, regarding peer group influence, and how influencial and important that is in the teen years. Things can be vary from great to awful depending on peer group, just class to class in one HS, much less with a cross country move. The other is what sounds a divorce issue, with lack of attention to the details of parenting. Unfortunately something I’ve witnessed a little too often. The picture you paint is heartbreaking. But sex is just a piece of the entire picture, and there is nothing here to me showing empowerment in any sense. I hope she is using birth control.