When you are 16/17 yourself you can't tell these girls who are your peers anything about dealing with older men. They initiate the shyt, I remember grown men who turned out to be mid 20s waiting for girls right outside the school gates. This is just over a decade ago, nothing was said.
See- that’s the issue. Grown men waiting outside the school gates because the PARENTS won’t see them.
Yes, young girls need to be raised to know better, but you know what? The girls from healthy backgrounds USUALLY are the ones who don’t fall into those situations. It’s the young girls who don’t have healthy male attention from dad, brothers, don’t have concerned mothers, etc who end up in this shyt.
When your kid isn’t in extracurriculars and is one of the kids just hanging around school grounds, walking around the city from 3-530 and just needs to beat you home before 6/630pm, gaps in their day that you as a parent cannot account for- fukk yea an impressionable young person is going to get wrapped up in some “older guy” giving her attention.
Same shyt happened to one of the girls in my HS crew. We all literally told her she was being r@ped by this older guy and she broke down when every single one of her fellow 16YO friends told her how stupid she was to be “dating” a 25YO who she had to sneak around to be with.
Because what is NORMAL and healthy is having a 16YO boyfriend come to your home and show his face to your parents, and have your parents meet his parents. Your 18YO boyfriend taking you to prom.
What is NOT normal is trying to hide your “relationship” with some guy in grad school from your parents. They usually find out the hard way when the guy drops them like it’s nothing.
You know what was happening? Her parents were getting divorced and she was shuttling back and forth between their houses, yet neither parent was ever home. So she was easy prey for a perverted older guy. It was clear she was lacking attention.