[KnightRider325]

Originally posted by Hugh R
My 17 year old daughter is working on her Girl Scout "Gold Award", which to the Girl Scouts is the equivalent of the Boy Scouts Eagle. Anyway for her award, she had an excellent speaker Dr. Jill Murray speak to 200 girls about boy friend abuse, date rape, etc. Dr. Murray has several books and, while I'm paraphrasing alot, she basically makes these points.

Girls in abusive relationships are not "Victims" they are enablers. You let a boy treat you like s4it you are empowering him to keep doing it.

Boys who are abusers never get better (and the girl can virtually never change him) you all know this as guys, we are what we are.

Apparently now a days, in High School, its common for boys to refer to their girl friends as their "bit(h" in front of them and behind their backs. My daughter isn't anyones "bit(h".

When my daughter dates, I've been occassionally known to let the boys know that I have 58 acres and a shovel... this seems to get their attention. After all, we were all 16 once, but that was someone else's daughter, not ours.

If you have a teenage daughter, check out drjillmurray.com and consider ordering her first book " But I love him"

hey, I'm 18 and am a 2nd class scout and a venturer scout. How about I "help" her on her gold award. haha just kidding, don't hurt me.