@Pain66 - I think it all depends on the context. In a patriarchy, it would've been perfectly acceptable, and perhaps even based.
But under the current structure, it's a gynocentric setup that accomplishes nothing. That daughter is still going to fuck a sports team in one night, at some point before she graduates.
The father is attempting to maintain the illusion of control over his daughter, at the expense of a young lad's face. ➡️
@Pain66 - ➡️ I have a boy around that age, 🤔 and if it were him... Me and the girl's father would have a discussion.
But this is just matriarchy in action. It always returns a bitter harvest. The giveaway is that there were likely zero negative consequences for the daughter. No ass whipping there... and that is equally appropriate as hitting the lad.
The father greenlighted letting a horny boy into his horny daughter's bedroom.
By any account that is dumb as all hell. It effectively communicates to both kids "I'm basically OK with it, but I'll give you extra hoops to jump through. Wink."
This is the non-religious in a nutshell, stumbling from one parenting moral crisis to the next, and no clue as to why or why not X behavior is OK or not. Religious fathers wouldn't tolerate the scenario to begin with.
@UncleIroh @YoMomz @Pain66 It has nothing to do with religion. It’s just weakness and stupidity.
Learning how to understand and overcome our inherent weaknesses and stupidity is EXACTLY the domain of religion.
@UncleIroh yeah but you don’t need religion for it. Well for the stupid masses you do.
The best possible case I can point to for non-religious parenting is China and Japan under Confucian patriarchy.
In that sense, TFM has a point that patriarchy is the secret ingredient, since they both had strict prescriptions on behaviors that could lead to children outside of marriage, & harsh penalties for transgressing.
But even then, daily life was still deeply entwined with religious ethics (Taoist, Buddhist or Shinto) that undergirded the Confucian social norms.