# Would you let your daughter spend the night with friend and single dad?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 31, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-your-daughter-spend-the-night-with-friend-and-single-dad/672707 "2013-10-31T01:51:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-let-your-daughter-spend-the-night-with-friend-and-single-dad/672707/221 "2017-06-07T17:32:02Z")

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> [@China\_Guy](#):
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> Meh, to each his own. Parents can be really weird, and I say that as a son and as a father of 3 girls.
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> Some parents just don’t do the sleepover thing with their kids. It’s pretty rare in the  
> Chinese culture to have sleepovers. My kids have friends that will come hang out until midnight but then get picked up. Whatever. Life is too short to get inside another parents head.
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> Having several kiddos doing the sleepover can alleviate the generally unfounded fears of some parents.
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> Parents being weird isn’t something to get offended by. Maybe a good moment to figure out how to make it a win win for the kids or a teaching moment.

My backyard neighbor told me she never lets her kids play at, much less stay over, their friends’ houses - the kids come to hers and thy have a great setup in their yard. She said growing up in Michoacan she wasn’t allowed to either, everyone came to her house and she prefers that way. But if that was cultural, no one would play at anyone’s house, so that’s confusing.

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