No Sleepover's

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Check out this site: http://www.nosleepover.com/



Basically its a campaign to end sleepovers because they believe that children get molested when staying the night at a friends house.



What do you think about this? Do you want to end sleepovers for children?

Would you allow your child to sleep over at a friends house?

 

[Corleone]

That's a bogus campaign with no real factual support. It's ridiculous to conclude sleepovers cause molestation. It happens, but that doesn't mean you should say no to sleepovers altogether and put your child in a bubble for the rest of their life. Ultimately, not convinced that if I had a child and I let them stay over at a friend's house they would get molested.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Well my daughter has not asked to sleep over at anyone's house. I think the whole sleepover thing has kind of gone out of style (at least around here).

She has friends at school and we get invited to go to their birthday parties and other events. I do not know their parents that well so I probably wouldn't let her do a sleepover. Even though all her friend's parents seem like good people. If she wanted to sleep over at any of her cousin's houses, that would be fine because her cousin's parents are my family so obviously I know them well enough to not worry about that sort of thing.

 

[The Dragon Master]

I had sleepover's when I was young. Nothing bad came out of it.



Really, it depends on the parent's judgement, like Freezy says.

 

[Bluezone777]

This reply from the owner of that site caught my eye.

Actually, I had no experience with sleepovers. Growing up we never had sleepovers. I had a wonderful childhood, filled with fun, lots of friends and activities, but we slept in our own beds and never stayed over anywhere, unless a parent was with us when we traveled. I think I first started thinking seriously about the risks when, as an Executive VP traveling for a multi-national company, I talked with young people in our call centers across the nation, and heard dozens of stories about things that happened to these kids during sleepovers, or things that they did that they wouldn’t have if they had been safe in their own beds. Many of these incidents had effects that I could see would impact these young people for a lifetime.

lol @ talking to people about the dangers of something you have zero experience with. All this site is based off of is dozens of stories that might not even be true or worse not even been told in the first place.



What also amuses me about this website is that by supporting it, you are basically telling the world that no child should sleep over your house because you will molest or corrupt them because there is no place for a child to sleep over where they won't be corrupted or molested according to what that person who runs that site been saying.

 

[Corleone]

Being a parent, it requires you to know who your child(ren) friends are, and their parent(s), and make the wise choice rather or not it's a safe place or not for your child(ren)...

Great answer. Basically sums up what I was about to say.