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In reply to the discussion: Y'know... [View all]Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)You can teach "respect" as a general principle, you cannot teach anyone to respect an individual who doesn't deserve it, nor should you. I remember too well Adam Walsh's father talking about having raised his son to respect adults...so when an adult told the 8-year-old Adam to "come with me" he did as he was told.
My son is caring and considerate. Thus, throughout his years in college and law school, if his date had too much too drink he took her home and went on to his own bed. Some of that was caring and consideration, but some of it was from having seen the grief caused when a drunk frat brother took an equally drunk young women home and followed her into her bedroom thinking he was welcomed.
There are no easy answers and certainly no guarantees. The prisons are full of convicts who were raised to know better.