PennsyPlinker
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If you haven't raised your children with enough self worth to conduct themselves properly on a date, trying to intimidate their dates with threats of violence is too little, too late.
I will agree with you to a certain point on this Larry, even though I have posted my experience having been quite the opposite. Children are independent agents and not programmed robots. We did raise our daughters with a very high degree of self worth, but there are some things on a date that they just can't control. In my example above, my chief threat to the young men was their driving. The girls can't do too much about that if the boy decides to speed, run stop signs, red lights, etc.
Just a little follow up for you and the rest who say threats don't work. First, the threat have to be believed, regardless of intent. Second, they do work. The boys I describe above drove like perfect citizens while in the company of my daughters. When the girls were not with them, both reverted to their natural state of driving like reckless morons. One has two totaled vehicles to his credit and the other has one, plus two speeding tickets for going 80+ mph in a 45 zone on a two lane country highway. He lost his license and continued to drive anyway. By this time the girls had decided for themselves they wanted no parts of riding anywhere with these guys, and saw that Dad's threats not only worked, but he had a little sense after all.
What works for me may not work for you, and vice versa. I'm not much of a relativist, but in this case, I am.
Oh yeah, I was raised as a good boy in a good family, went to church every Sunday, etc, and the first and foremost thing on my mind was getting into my date's pants, just like every friend of mine. I have changed quite a bit since those days, and now that I have daughters, I am on the lookout for boys who are just like I used to be.