[shawspear]

I really don't think you guys see it: THOSE WERE IDEALIZED CONVERSATIONS!!! and I made that point explicit in the very first post I made and I stated explicitly that parents should say and do what they are comfortable with! But let me mention a point I am very passionate about: Poor little Casey. I wonder if her dad talked to her about sex? And when I say "talk", I really mean "banter" in a loving, fun, and somewhat comical way as I've stated numerious times here. But you didn't did you dad? Like most guys, you were too uncomfortable, unprepared, too ignorant of girls to do that.

I am without doubt absolutely confident that if dad had cultivated a loving relationship with her from birth, loved her, engaged her about important matters in her life including talking to her about sex, he would have saved his little girl. And now all that's left is a deep wound in his heart and a lifelong regret and yearning to go back and be different: "yes shawspear, I would, without a doubt talk to her more, be more loving, caring, even have the two conversations above with her that so many in here find distasteful, in a heartbeat I would do that regardless what they all say, anything for my little princecess, anything at all."