Will you allow your children to date, to court or arranged relationship?
By anij34
@anij34 (317)
United States
June 22, 2007 12:36pm CST
Also, how old will they be when you allow this?
My husband and I are for courting, which is where the young people get to know each other at the home of the girls parents. They spend most of the time there together with supervision from the girls parents. If they do go out by themselves it will be supervised at first.
How old? Depends on the maturity of my daughter and whatever young man decides to ask to court her. This sounds old fashioned but I don't trust the hormones that rear their heads at that age.
2 responses
@magnet (2087)
• United States
23 Jun 07
When I was a teenager my mom would let me go see a guy they had to come see me. Before I could go out on a date with the guy my parents had to meet him and get to know him first. It did not bother me that they did that. Even as an adult in college I did not go out alone with a guy until I got to know him. You just can't trust everyone. I once went out with a guy without getting to know him first and he was crazy. I mean literally crazy.I thought that we were going out to eat instead he took me to his place and started to treaten me. I found a knife and I thought that I was going to have to use it to defend myself. I did not show any fear. I was ready to get him, but he got his act together and took me back to campus. Thank God I was safe. From that day on I decided not to ever do that again.
@Chryssi (828)
• United States
22 Jun 07
I don't have any children, but if I did, I would let them group date. Of course, that would be after I met their friends, and their date. The age that I would let them date would probably be 16 or so, unless they proved to me long before that they were responsible.
