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Why a defense attorney doesnt let her kids go to sleepovers
A criminal defense attorney explained why she doesnt allow her kids to go for sleepovers at their friends houses, dividing her followers in the process.�
The dos and donts of parenting are constantly debated, and no doubt will be for the rest of time. Most parents have their own rules, but that doesnt necessarily mean those rules are respected by other parents out there. Sometimes they are outright ignored.�
Erin said no sleepovers for her kids
Erin Bailey, a defense lawyer from Georgetown, South Carolina, recently responded to a follower question on her TikTok page. She usually posts content around the law and her job, but this time made the dip into her own parenting choices.
First and primary reason is the SA risk, she explained to her 10k followers, abbreviating sexual assault to not flag the platforms content policy. While you may feel like you know the parents who are hosting the sleepover really well, and you know and love and trust them, thats exactly who is committing SA.
She continued to explain that most sexual assault cases are not in public spaces or with complete strangers, but instead people who are already known to the victim.�
Second of all, you may know the parents but you dont know necessarily the neighbors, the grandparents, the aunts and uncles, the older siblings, the friends of the older siblings who may all be bought into the equation, she continued.
Capping off her reasons, Erin said that you simply dont know that parents rules regarding things like roaming the neighborhood and communicating online.�
Theres just too many variables, not to mention pew pews in the house, she added, referencing firearms.
Not everyone agreed with the lawyers views
Though Erins logic seemed sound, and frankly they are her kids, her comments divided her followers. Some understood the apprehension, but others said she seemed like no fun.
One person wrote: As an SA survivor from a sleepover, thank you for bringing awareness to this issue.
Sleepovers are a really integral part of childhood development. I think building trust and communication with your child helps this too, someone else countered, as someone else agreed, I watched some kids grow up and their resentment towards their parents started with no sleepovers and evolved to full screaming matches over controlling behavior from their parents as they became teens.
