Poll of the Day > Would you let your daughter spend the night with friend and single dad?

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I just had a surreal moment. As I've mentioned here before, just yesterday actually, I'm 36 and a single dad with an 8 year old daughter.

Ok, the kiddo wanted a friend of hers to spend the night Friday. She's never spent the night before, but they've been at birthday parties and a couple school events at the same time, I've met and talked to her parents and we've exchanged numbers so we could get the kids together to play or whatever.

At school today, daughter told her friend she wanted her to spend the night and that the parents should talk about it, and my daughter told me after school that she mentioned it but the friend said her mom deleted my number. She must have accidentally deleted it, I said. "No, she said her mom deleted it on purpose." Well, you never know if you're getting an accurate story with kids, I'm sure she switched phones and lost it or something.

I called the mom and got her voicemail, left a message that "This is X's dad and she was wondering if your daughter could spend the night Friday. Here's my number if you want to give me a call, she'd sure like having her over. Thanks."

Three minutes later I get a call back. "This is So-and-so's dad. Her mom told me you left a message about maybe having her spending the night. See, the thing is, she told me you're a single dad and it's just you and your daughter living together and I just wouldn't feel comfortable with her spending the night without a woman there. I'm sure you understand."

"Um, sure, no problem thanks for calling."

So, without a woman here to watch over me, I guess I could start molesting at any time. That's somewhat offensive, but then I realized that her mother probably really did delete my number on purpose for the same reason which just solidifies the offense. I guess my daughter isn't good enough to be friends with theirs on account of my vagina deficiency (and, heh, penis overabundance).

I've tried to see it from their point of view but I've met a handful of other single dads and I wouldn't have a problem sending my kid over there. I would check them out as much as I do mothers and babysitters by talking to them and getting to know them a little and as long as they seem like decent people who wouldn't be throwing an all night kegger, I'd let her go.

So what's your take? Would you let your daughter spend the night with a friend if the friend had a single dad?
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Go_Totodile posted...

maybe i was lying about that

makes u think
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why does it matter if it's true or not

you can still discuss the hypothetical
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Philoktetes posted...

I'm 36 and a single dad with an 8 year old daughter.

no you're not
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i googled it

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-706499.html

this dude just has the oddest gimmick
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lmao
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HellHole_ posted...

i googled it

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-706499.html

this dude just has the oddest gimmick

don't doxx me
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I like the term penis overabundance

i would let my son spend the night at a friend's house who had a single mom

lucky kid
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HellHole_ posted...

i googled it

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-706499.html

this dude just has the oddest gimmick

this is creepy and disturbing... why would you make a topic lying about this
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mastermix3000 posted...

HellHole_ posted...

i googled it

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-706499.html

this dude just has the oddest gimmick

this is creepy and disturbing... why would you make a topic lying about this

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Lmao

ya'll "play along" with shitty ass trolls all the time, someone copypastas some funny shit and everyone cries and pisses all over it.

this board sux.
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Philoktetes posted...

why does it matter if it's true or not

Because you aren't looking for an honest answer. You have an agenda here. It doesn't even matter whether anyone agrees with your point or not, people don't like being used like this.
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my "agenda" is to stop men from automatically being accused of being rapists just because they're men

do you have a problem with that
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Philoktetes posted...

my "agenda" is to stop men from automatically being accused of being rapists just because they're men

do you have a problem with that

But in the same topic you said a boy would be lucky to hang out at a house with a single mom like implying something sexual would happen.
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you gotta get a better hobby tc
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Jen0125 posted...

Philoktetes posted...

my "agenda" is to stop men from automatically being accused of being rapists just because they're men

do you have a problem with that

But in the same topic you said a boy would be lucky to hang out at a house with a single mom like implying something sexual would happen.

thank you

I swear this was just stupid, fucking weirdo, you're making ICO look normal and that's saying a lot
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Jen0125 posted...

Philoktetes posted...

my "agenda" is to stop men from automatically being accused of being rapists just because they're men

do you have a problem with that

But in the same topic you said a boy would be lucky to hang out at a house with a single mom like implying something sexual would happen.

yeah

it's cool if youre a boy and an older woman wants to sex you

it's ccreepy if youre a girl and an older man wants to sex you
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Lol okay.
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he's right tho even though when im sixty i plan on plowing some hot twenty year old

LaggnFragnLarry posted...

he's right tho even though when im sixty i plan on plowing some hot twenty year old

lmfaooooooooo
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Nade Duck posted...

ya'll "play along" with shitty ass trolls all the time, someone copypastas some funny shit and everyone cries and pisses all over it.

Seriously, I've been saying this forever. It makes no sense

Philoktetes posted...

why does it matter if it's true or not

you can still discuss the hypothetical

With you? Pass.
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Great topic. Have a bump.

She isn't spending the night at anyones house until I feel I know the parent(s) well enough not to worry. Otherwise she is always welcome to have friends over to our house. I'm home most days, so it's easy for me to keep an eye on them.

That being said, it will be several years before I think she is old enough for sleepovers.
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tl;dr, but no, i wouldn't, ok?
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Troll_Police_ posted...

She isn't spending the night at anyones house until I feel I know the parent(s) well enough not to worry. Otherwise she is always welcome to have friends over to our house. I'm home most days, so it's easy for me to keep an eye on them.

That being said, it will be several years before I think she is old enough for sleepovers.

this guy gets it, ok?
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If I trusted the family, yes.
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Just when I think its an interesting story, I forget to check who OP is

king of copypasta

As a complete hypothetical, I wouldn't be comfortable with it. I've heard too many horror stories.
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