re: Fathers of Daughters - Anyone ever lost one to woke feminism

My daughter is almost in high school, and there is 0 chance she slides that way.

However, I have a cousin whose dad is conservative leaning, but had a mom that was a social worker/therapist. That child moved to North Carolina for college, and is now married to a trans who just announced she wanted the freedom to bang other people.

My biggest fear is that she is develops a serious medical condition or is killed in an accident any number of ways—you know, things beyond our control. Politics just aren’t that important and can be reasoned with.

No one is answering the OP’s question, just singing the virtues of how great a job they did at raising theirs.

Not a daughter and since she is MAGA I can't say I lost her, but I had a neice who says she is lesbian.

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Any stories about conservative Christian girls going to the lion's den and coming out alive to help ease my worries?

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The generation that grew up in the heyday of wokeness (say 2016-2023) seems a bit more skeptical of it. Kids are good at asking common-sense questions, and in a super-woke classroom, those questions are often off-limits. When you run up against that wall repeatedly, it is pretty off-putting.

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A steadfast father is the best defense.

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But solid Christian faith is even more important.

No one is answering the OP’s question, just singing the virtues of how great a job they did at raising theirs.

a couple of us questioned the premise of the OP's question in the first place......

I have two and both are liberal. Not crazy liberal, but liberal, nonetheless. My wife is more conservative than I am. They both are live out of State and have experiences with all different types of people.

Oldest is in an industry where the majority of people working in it are artsy and weird, but as an engineer she is seeing all sides. She has empathy for workers and her friends who are every alphabet on the spectrum. Her liberalism started in High School (went to private school and got a great education, but hung out with the nerds, band, etc.)
She became an R/A at LSU and when exposed to the other kids there, she really changed. Wasn't too overboard, until her final year of engineering which occurred during covid. Real covid nazi, and now she has anxiety and stress, etc. and that is all we hear from her. Constantly complains about stuff that her Mom and I would shrug off as just another day at work. Lives away, so we don't have much influence on her anymore. Wife just tries to get her to go to church, but we agree if we push too hard, it won't help. She will just go further the other direction.

Same thing happened with the youngest. She had pretty much same HS experience, budding liberal but coming from a place of empathy and compassion. Her experience at LSU during Covid and our reaction to it, was disappointing. Both were big shot, booster, updates, masks, everything proponent. I really think she really gravitates towards taking care of people and her liberal ideas stem from this. She is in post graduate school and puts random things on social media and it really breaks her heart when people comment on it, but both wife and I explained, that she can't just put stuff out there and many people don't believe what she does. She mainly posts about government funding for healthcare because she sees the good those programs provide. Her and her friends seem almost insulated from opposite viewpoints and it's unsettling when someone disagrees with them publicly. If it's something we don't believe we let her know. Can't really push her too hard either, it always works the opposite of how we would like.

It's kind of crazy because she works hard, has multiple jobs, doesn't ask for much and can really be a hard person emotionally. At the same time, she volunteers at a Church every Sunday and basically chauffeurs around her classmate who is disabled. Her liberalism always comes from a good place.

We hope they both keep the compassion, but as they pay taxes and interact with different people, we hope things change. I don't regret sending them to private school, but I think it isolated them both from the public high schools experiences the wife and I had. You try not to make them soft and teach them what you can and give them what you didn't have. Always tried to influence them to be conservative. We were not helicopter parents in the least and always taught them to finish something you start and life wasn't fair. If you work hard, it pays off. It pretty much has for both of them. They both will start out making more than my wife and I did and both will have degrees that are recession proof. Overall proud of both of them, but disappointed in their politics.

Don't be afraid to discuss conservative ideals at dinner.