If you were to have a daughter that was 14 would you let her date and 18 year old?

Too old for her.

Last time that happened in my family... I was born.

That's jail bait

Why would I let her date a corpse?

Absolutely not.

Depends on if you know the person she would be dating. If they have been friends for a long time and you know him and his family well, then yes I would. If I didn't know the person then I would tell him to stay the hell away from my daughter.

If I had a 14 year old daughter she wouldn't be dating anyone! Too young!

She would not possess the m,aturity to handle an adult situation such as a relationship with a membber of the opposite sex.

I wouldn't be okay with a 3 year variance between them until she's 18 and my opinion wouldn't matter anymore.

No...just no. If she was 16 then yes, but as a teenager a 2 year age difference is enough.

No.

there is no reason for an 18 year old to be around my daughter.

Not in this (American) culture!!

In another one less up-tight about such things. . .MAYBE. It would depend on the maturity of both individuals.

And if that should sound crazy to some of you, remember that LESS than a hundred years ago it was somewhat common for men in their 30s, 40s and 50s to marry girls that young.

LESS than a hundred years ago people were dying of polio & small pox was a common disease. Less than a hundred years ago people thought that Coca-Cola could make you skinny & that smoking cigarettes was a healthy way to lose weight. I think we're much smarter than we were 100 years ago.
Btw, SodaHead is international, not everyone hear is American.

1) Your point (with the litany of things which used to be true) is what?

2) Back in the day, Coke COULD make you skinny. It was laced with cocaine. The drinker felt too wired to eat. In a very real sense it was the speed of its day. That's why they called it "coke dope" when ordering it.

3) You're certainly free to think we're smarter if you wish, but I don't see the evidence. :-) Sure, we've got more gadgets, can preserve our food for weeks on end and speed along the planet at upwards of 600 miles per hour, but that just makes us children with fancier toys. The average fourteen year old of 1900 was TEN TIMES better educated/more aware than the fourteen year old of today. That was kinda sorta my point.

4) On Sodahead being international, that's why I *specified* the AMERICAN culture as the 'baseline' for my opinion.

Thanks for the challenge, though. I LIKE friends who keep me on my toes!

"I LIKE friends who keep me on my toes!" < Same here! Just one thing though, Coca-Cola has been completely cocaine-free since the 1920's. I was talking about the people from the 30's and on that believed it would help you lose weight. Like here:



Now we know that 8 oz. of Coca-cola doesn't have many calories, but it's packed with sugar. Back then they believed that it had so few calories, so it must be healthy!

Perhaps I should disclose a little about myself by way of location. I'm FROM the city where Coca Cola was invented and is produced to this day. I only mention that by way of totally useless qualification for what I'm about to say. :-)

In the sixties, Coca Cola was produced using cane sugar. Today it's made with high fructose corn syrup. That's why it packs on the lard now, but didn't--at least not so much--back in the day.

I'll grant you, though, that it ceased being any kind of 'diet' aid in the 20's. :-)

Well, that's cool. Didn't know that. It does make a lot of sense, now that you mention it :)

By the way, don't you find these little commercials that defend high fructose corn syrup hilarious?

If corn syrup weren't turning us in to a nation of beach balls I might.

I kno rite :/ What i find hilarious is that they actually try to tell you that high fructose corn syrup isn't bad for you, which just shows the gluttony of us Americans today. I wonder if people believed that crap xD

I figure most people are pretty much like me and learn how to tune out that kind of propaganda by the time they're twelve.

And if they ARE anything like me, they don't believe ANYTHING coming out of gover-business. The truth ain't in 'em.

My daughter is 14, and the baseball bat came out of the closet to the front door, got a gate too.

It's just four years. Of course I'd want them to keep a door open to make sure nothing goes on though.

An open door never stopped me/my GF when I was fourteen. Just sayin.' :-)

(She was 14, too! Everybody get yer mind out of the gutter. :-) )

But I like it there! :P

LOLZ!

It never stopped me either. But I would actually watch my kid.

That's what our parents said, too. :-D

My parents never even tried to watch me. Ever. I willingly leave my door open. If I had a kid I really would watch her.

i was 13 at the timw nd he was 17 nd i got in so much trouble my dad wants to kill him

I don't blame your dad.

Wait. I don't blame him IF you guys did something. If you did nothing then it's ok.

She'd be a minor. There's no way I'd let her date an adult.

it all depends on how mature they are and as long as they are not having sex

There was a girl I know who started dating a guy who was 18 and she was 14 a couple of years ago in high school. Her life turned out less than perfect. She had her first kid at 15 at the end of her sophomore year. After she graduated from high school in 2009, she had a baby right after another every year. The fathers of the children unknown. I haven't seen her in awhile but I wouldn't be surprise if she was pregnant again. She has a very sad life.

No

Nope. I would say three years older is okay though. When I was seventeen, I had a fourteen year old girlfriend.

Nope.

Plus, any boy who wants to date my daughter will have to survive an interview with me first. If he doesn't have the kahunas to talk man to man with me, he doesn't have access to my daughter. Period.

And for those who will think "oh, she'll just go out anyway", not so. We actually have a relationship with our kids. We're open, discuss all things. We've been talking about dating and relationships for years now. Any time I have asked my daughter about a character quality in a boy who has caught her eye, she has come quickly to the same conclusion my wife and I have, and didn't give the guy a second thought. She's a good thinker, far better than I was when I was twice her age.

I would not.

Isn't that illegal?