Rape culture, airplanes, and unaccompanied minors

[Mister Ed]

43. Or let them go out of doors?

I dunno. If it should end up happening that a child is molested on an airliner, I would be very reluctant to blame the child's mother. Seems sorta like blaming the victim.

I can't possibly count the number of flights I took alone as a juvenile. Dozens and dozens of them, for sure. I could've been the inspiration for George Clooney's frequent-flier character in "Up in the Air".

I started flying without my parents when I was six. Of course, I wasn't entirely on my own at such a tender age. I had my big sister along to watch out for me. She was eight, so I felt quite safe!

Everywhere I went during all those years, the airline personnel and all the other the passengers sure were nice to me.

The only one of my siblings to ever be molested was my sister, years earlier. She was molested in our home, when quite young, by a grown woman who was hired to babysit us. I'd be reluctant to blame Mom, though, or post a question like, "Why do mothers abandon their kids to babysitters?"

I guess if there's a point to this meandering reply, it's that there aren't really any good, pat answers to all of this.