I can say from experience that I'd take things into my own hands. Luckily someone pulled me off before things got too far out of hand. Even with a close call I'll take my chances on slipping through the justice system rather than chancing that the offender will.

I have done the best I can to rasie my kids to act like they should. If they make a bad decision they know they have to face the concequnces.

but anyone that tries to force them to do something is a whole other ballgame.

I always meet my daughters B/F before they ever go out. Since I am such a small fella, 6'8" and built more like a defensive lineman it usually works pretty well.

But I have also told my son that if he ever messes with a girl or treats her with anything but respect, he will not only find himself in trouble but he will have to face me when he gets home.

to some it up if you mess with my kids, wife, or anything else of mine, I will come after you and I won't ever quit.

Child Abuse
 

As someone who has spent her entire life devoted to the education and protection of small children I can tell you that PREVENTION goes a looooong way. If small kids are given the information they need to help keep themselves safe they will do their best to follow it. They should also be given tools to help deal with any bad things that may happen. I told my kids it was okay to hurt, bite, scratch, hide from etc... grown ups who tried to hurt them. Kids are usually not empowered with enough information to help themselves safe.
Adults who prey on children are mentally ill. They are, in general, not treatable so they should be deat with accordingly, as unredeemable (death penalty ok by me). If it were my children or a child I was close to, it would be dangerous to leave me within striking distance of the perpetrator.
Another issue is the teen issue, it is funny how many men, who would kill anyone who messes with their daughters or grandaughters, think themselves somehow innocent when THEY oogle late teen girls. Abuse is abuse........

Lilith.

It is normal for people to look at younger, trimmer members of the opposite sex and think nice thoughts. Doesn't make them abusers, just normal.

People who go beyond that are different.

Abuse my daughters, No4 shotgun to each kneecap and one to the groin. Hard to abuse with no genitals and a walking frame.

Optional sentence-
 

Always believed that any real rapist of a woman of any age, should be locked in a room for 20 minutes with her father, a 4 ft. long 2x4, a Hefty bag and a sponge!

(and I don’t think whatever his age will matter);)

I have to say that as an only child I am my dad's baby girl.... thats why I waited a year and a half to tell him I was raped by a stranger that I've seen 2 times since but still haven't turned in to the cops... and also I haven't told him I was coerced into giving up my virginity because I made a bad decision to do drugs.... and then there was the b/f I had who liked to hit and burn me.... I didn't tell him about that until a year afterwards.... I guess this doesn't make any moms or dads feel any better but from the other side of the coin, the fervor with which you parents react does scare us... it did me....

Always

Kyttn