what age that you will allow your child to have a date

it depends on how much you trust your daughter. if she is sensible enough and will go out only with someone you would prefer your daughter going out with, then 15yrs is good enough.

My daughter is 15, and she's a junior highschooler in an exclusive all-girls school. At this point, I don't think I would allow her to go on a date unaccompanied by her brother. Maybe when she steps into college, where school will be co-ed, this will have to change. No matter how I probably will never like the idea, there will be boys around. This is inevitable. We will have to adjust to the changes, because we would want her to be honest and open to us about these things. By then, she would be about 17 years old and it won't be long till she becomes an adult and mature enough to make the right choices and decisions for herself.

I think most parents today let their children date to young. I know kids as young as 14 who are allowed to go on dates and be alone together. To me that is just to young and you are allowing children to be put into situations they are not mature enough to handle. Sometimes I blame irresponsible parenting for the high teen pregnancy rate. Kids this young may beg to go on dates because 'all the other kids are doing it' but I think parents should stand their ground and say no. My own daughter was not allowed to date until she was 16, and we had to meet the boy a couple of times first. She also had a much earlier curfew than many of her friends. Which was a source of tension between us at times. But I stood my ground and kept explaining why. By time she was 18 she had matured enough that she understood and kept the curfew even though at 18 she didn't have to.

When they finish their studies...I'm sure they can handle things then.