[abbi_normal_2]

Schools get their knickers in a knot over the darndest things now. As a 16 year old senior “more than a couple years ago” I came with my 22 year old boyfriend, now husband, who had recently finished a tour in the Navy, and no one said a thing. It never crossed my mind that anyone would object - and they didn’t.

[fella]

I guess that this is some of that socialization that home schoolers miss out on. It's a lesson that the kids can do without especially at the tax payers expense.

[heartwood]

Do you draw the line somewhere? If her boyfriend were 30? 35? 49?

Yes, she should have been able to go with her Marine. 21 is fine, better than if she were with a 15 y.o.

[madison10]

I came with my 22 year old boyfriend, now husband, who had recently finished a tour in the Navy, and no one said a thing. It never crossed my mind that anyone would object - and they didn’t.

I went to my Senior Prom with my 19-year-old, not-from-the-district boyfriend, now husband. I don't think they even ASKED the ages back then. (1977)

[ktscarlett66]

I so agree. I remember many girls attending proms with their service member boyfriends, some of whom they’d dated for years. It was a big thing to have your BF come back in uniform for your prom, at least back in ‘84! So many of them were older than us. And hey, the 18 year old guys could slip across over to Maryland and get buy whatever booze they wanted in a 20 minute trip.

We have a friend whose mother died when he was young. His father started dating an 18 year old still in HS when the son was about 8. Dad was in his 30s then. They got married after she graduated and are still married to this day, 34 years later.