[Tax-chick]

I never said the young lady was lost! Just that as a mother, I wouldn't be totally comfortable with my daughter's being in that situation. Not because there's anything wrong with the Bush White House in particular, but simply because occasions of sin abound for single young people away from home or an in loco parentis college like Patrick Henry.

So I wouldn't call it an "unsafe environment," but rather "exposure to temptation." It's not so much the work situation, but the after-work environment.

[dasboot]

Y'gotta go where the sinners are when your a soldier. And y' gotta have faith. Foxes and lambs...and that.

[FreeTheHostages]

I understand what you're saying and I don't think I'm being unfair or creating a crude caricature of that to say that that's a Bubble view of the world. Just because it's a city? These are college-age kids after all. Soon they're going to be out alone in the big wild, wide world. I think it *is* a dangerous bubble-ish view of the world to say even at that age, even when working at the Bush White House, it's all too dangerous. Kids can't be sheltered *that* much at that age -- they have to be making the right choices on their own very soon.

I see what you're saying and I just still feel, with cheerful regret, that that's an entirely different planet with a different weather system than mine.

Well, so be it. We disagree. I'm sure this young McDonald will acquit herself just fine.

[glory]

I would agree with you if this young lady was 14, but she's what, about 22-23. At some point, it is time to let them go on their way and trust in the Lord that you have raised a godly child. It is this young lady's time to be salt and light now, she is an adult.