33 Year old Man Courting an 18 Year old Girl

[_jon]

Kimberley,

I totally accept your right to voice your opinions.

For the record, if I had an 18 year old daughter who was 'courting' a 33 year old man I would be massively uncomfortable.
However, I would have to recognise that she was an adult who is lawfully allowed to make her own decisions.
Who is to say what is or is not an 'acceptable' age gap for consenting adults in a relationship - even a casual relationship.

Whilst I have empathy for the obviously distressed father, I personally think that making a fuss about it (as he has started to do) will have the opposite effect to the one he is trying to have.

[_Spurven Ten Sing]

Safe trip, KA. Are you coming my way? Would love to meet you!

[_RockSlider]

PS. Spurven, if you only knew how I try to chase military recruiters from my local high school. I have told them off in the past, and, in fact, did it just recently. Their recruitment efforts were severely reduced this year. If my efforts pay off, they won't have the chance to recruit there next year at all.

Hey now, my eldest son joined the army gaurd his jr. year in high school.
He's flying helicopters now and has a great carreer of which he will be able to retire from about age 45

[_Spurven Ten Sing]

PS. Spurven, if you only knew how I try to chase military recruiters from my local high school. I have told them off in the past, and, in fact, did it just recently. Their recruitment efforts were severely reduced this year. If my efforts pay off, they won't have the chance to recruit there next year at all.

Hey now, my eldest son joined the army gaurd his jr. year in high school.
He's flying helicopters now and has a great carreer of which he will be able to retire from about age 45

If you start a new thread about the military, I promise to ignore it. :)

[_KimberlyAnn]

Safe trip, KA. Are you coming my way? Would love to meet you!

I'd love to meet you, too, Spurven, but I'm not going to Europe. My best friend of many years is going to England and Scotland and France and I'd love to go with her, but can afford to send only one person in the family, so my daughter, Courtney, is going. Her plane tickets and various train tickets and admission to Disneyland Paris and her share of a few nights in a castle cost several thousand dollars. And then there's the exchange rate and expensive Parisian food...no, I can't go, but Court's promised to send lots of pictures.

I am very excited for her.

KA

[_RockSlider]

If you start a new thread about the military, I promise to ignore it. :)

This son did a 2 year mission in Norway

[_Spurven Ten Sing]

If you start a new thread about the military, I promise to ignore it. :)

This son did a 2 year mission in Norway

Tough mission with Spurven in it!

[_Spurven Ten Sing]

Safe trip, KA. Are you coming my way? Would love to meet you!

I'd love to meet you, too, Spurven, but I'm not going to Europe. My best friend of many years is going to England and Scotland and France and I'd love to go with her, but can afford to send only one person in the family, so my daughter, Courtney, is going. Her plane tickets and various train tickets and admission to Disneyland Paris and her share of a few nights in a castle cost several thousand dollars. And then there's the exchange rate and expensive Parisian food...no, I can't go, but Court's promised to send lots of pictures.

I am very excited for her.

KA

Know what's funny? Europe is so humdrum to me. So everyday. Boring!

[_lostindc]

I agree with Kim's initial post suggesting that it is absolutely crazy to let her daughter go with that 33 year old dude. I have very young daughters and you better believe that if something such as this arose it would end quick.

[_Jersey Girl]

KA,
are the dumb 18 year olds who the US military industrial complex recruit to catch bullets or blow up family homes of peasants preyed upon?

YES

If not, what's the difference? Would you think it's fine for this girl to join the marines and frag a village but not mess around with a grownup?

NO