[Lucy-H22669]

Of course her father doesn’t want her to date. I think that for a father, the transition of a daughter from a little girl to a grown woman is very difficult. At 14, I had several boyfriends, but my parents took an ACTIVE role in my social life. They regulated phone calls and dates – no calls after 9pm, no calls over 20 minutes, only group dating, only supervised house parties, early curfews etc. We talked about these rules as a family and discussed the reasons for having them. Of course I didn’t particularly like the rules, but I understood why they were there, and that if I followed them and proved myself to be trustworthy, my parents would relax the rules. My parents also made a point to know my friends and their parents. My mom would always talk to them when they called or when they came over to the house. She didn’t interogate them or anything, just got to know them. My friends thought she was great because she was so nice to them, and she felt comfortable with my friends because she knew them. This included boyfriends as well as girlfriends. My dad had another tactic: he was an outdoorsman, and he just happened to be sharpening a Bowie knife or something whenever a boyfriend would come to pick me up. That image seemed to keep my boyfriend’s hands from wandering.

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Name : Lucy-H22669, Gender : F, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Age : 25, City : San Jose, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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