I'm going out for the evening Dad. Do I look ok?
Sep 02 '00 (Updated Sep 03 '00)
Last night was the first high school football game of the season. My step daughter is in the marching band, so of course we endured the 100 plus degree temperature to watch her band perform. The football team and the band performed well, but this editorial is not about them, but the kids attending the football game. All I could say after the game was "parents, lock up your daughters until they are 30".
I work in the inner city and deal with hookers on the job all the time. Meaning I work on an ambulance and we run a lot of calls on these ladies, not that I pick them up while they are working. A lot of the girls that were in attendance at the football game were dressed about the same as the ladies working the streets.
I saw girls wearing shorts so short they looked like bikini bottoms. Tank tops cut just below breast level. I had a hard time realizing that these where junior high and high school students. I rarely have seen so much makeup except in women working the streets.
Now I am not prude, or old fashioned. What bothers me is the safety of these girls. Do these young ladies not know what message they are sending out? Or do they know, but feel they are safe because we live out in the suburbs. I see women who are molested and raped all the time, and a big factor is how they present themselves. I feel women should be able to dress any way they want, but lets face it, this world in not entirely safe and people with good intentions get hurt.
I know as parents that we can not monitor what our children wear all the time. If they want to wear something, they will. All they have to do is change after they leave the house. What we can do is take an interest in where they are going. This was a school football game with many parents in attendance. I was truly amazed listening to some of the fathers talking about the girls at the game. If their wives had heard, I guarantee a few would be sleeping on the couch for an extended period.
Parents, we need to stand together on issues of safety concerning our children. If you see a child dressed inappropriately and know the parents, let them know. They may be unaware of how their child in dressing in public. If they don't take your advice, at least you tried.
This opinion was not meant to say that girls who dress sexy are looking for trouble. What I was trying to get across was with the girls dressing a bit too provocative, a bit to much makeup, and the attitude they are presenting, "I" believe they are sending out the wrong message. Remember they are doing this to impress the boys, but they are also impressing people who do not hold the same high morals that we do.
I know many of you will not agree with me on this issue, but I do have our childrens safety in mind. I see battered and raped girls at work all the time. I just don't want this to be your daughter.
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