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To: E who wrote (42901)	7/1/1999 8:47:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Would I? Hmmmmmm... Oh! Let me not forget to thank you for attempting to do my thinking for me! LOL!!!!

To: E who wrote (42901)	7/1/1999 10:03:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, how can he know whether he would or wouldn't, unless he actually had a child? Then it stops being hypothetical, and starts being all too real. And if you actually have a child, you know how much of an allocation of resources that child is, every iota of it given gladly and freely, with the hope that the child will have what it needs to function and be strong and good and happy. And if someone tried to victimize my child, or exploit my child, for his or her own purposes, damn straight I'd do whatever I could to stop him or her. I don't think dating a peer, when the child is of appropriate dating age, is victimization or exploitation, please don't misunderstand me.

To: E who wrote (42901)	7/2/1999 1:04:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think X the Unknown wrote a really marvelous post some time back stating that perhaps her primary ethical engine was a fierce loyalty to and protectiveness of her family, esp. the children. I am learning that it is a primal force - different from that felt even for my bride&lifemate. I hold the Helenator to my chest and I would walk through fire for her. It's not one bit sentimental - it's kinda like breathing. I suspect/fear I will have to work very hard to let go of my high-school-age daughter enough to allow her a dating life. (and that would be my duty - to grant her that freedom - but to appraise with a jaundiced eye the allwronghaired gangly bezitted boy-men she entertains, and SHUT UP about it unless I detect a truly serious defect. Like a violent streak or a failure to call me "Sir".) I would certainly not countenance any significantly older male trying something with her.