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I have one child - an 18 year old boy. Your daughters are safe around him. He was well churched growing up, and we've done our level best to raise him right. So far, we've been successful. Our biggest worries? That the girls he chooses to go out with are also as well churched, well mannered, AND as committed to abstinence as he is. If you wave a gun around at him, he's going to ask you about which is your favorite, and talk about rifles, ranges, calibers, and accuracy with you. He might even forget why he came in the first place.

Honestly, I lived my teenage years in liberal 60s California culture, and I was a bit of a Lothario as a young man. But I have to be equally honest and say that none of the girls I (ahem) "dated" ever had to be forced into anything, and they were just as often the instigators of wrong actions as I was. It is not a period of my life of which I am particularly proud, but it takes two to tango, and the blame was not all mine. In my experience, women, as an overall gender, are not any more saintly than men, and they are just as capable of sin as any man. My wife and I made it our goal, our Ebeneezer stone, if you will, to break that cycle of behavior in our branch of the family, and to start anew, walking in faith, and hewing to a more Biblical morality.

Perhaps God granted me a mercy by giving me a son instead of a daughter so that I would not have to fear suitors who were like me as a young man. Or, perhaps he gave me a son so that I could appreciate how God can shape a young man from an early age into a son to be proud of. I also appreciate those of you who want to protect your daughters, and may God grant that your efforts are successful. But please know that there are some of us who feel the same way about our sons, and not all teenaged son are dogs, and not all teenage girls are innocent. Some of teenage boys are men. Real, solid, upright men. And they know how to respect and cherish a woman.

I just wanted to get that off my chest.