re: Boy Scouts to change name after allowing girls to join

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Great idea. Let's pollute children because there is no way we can control the adults we allow into the organization.

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Can you control the adults that work in your child's school? What about the ones that coach your kids teams? What about the ones that live in the neighborhood, or just drive through it?

Are you a parent?

I'm really struggling with trying to understand, why teaching kids about danger is a bad thing.

In the 80s, when I was in Cub Scouts, we learned about stranger dangers.

Scouts - at the core - is about teaching life skills. The ability for a child to know how to respond to a danger is one of the most basic life skills there is. It's not just about what to do during a Scout meeting. It's about life. And while hopefully your son or daughter will never be confronted with such an issue, especially not in Scouts - why would you not want him/her to be informed about how to deal with it if it does?

I get that the move isn't 100 percent popular and that there are some issues with it - but this is a really, really strange thing to harp on.