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This Dad’s Set of Rules for Dating His Daughters Goes Viral for the Right Reasons

This Dad’s Set of Rules for Dating His Daughters Goes Viral for the Right Reasons

We all know how overly protective fathers can be, especially when it comes to protecting their daughters from heartbreak.

This father has some unconventional rules for any prospective suitor of his daughters. And unexpectedly, his rules have gone viral – maybe because of how empowering they are for his girls.

Writer J. Warren Welch, who is father to five daughters, posted his rules on his Facebook and Instagram and they have been shared over 17,000 times. Some major news outlets are requesting for him to be interviewed.

These are his set of rules, you might be surprised:

“Rules for dating my daughters.

You’ll have to ask them what their rules are.

I’m not raising my little girls to be the kind of women who need their daddy to act like a creepy possessive badass in order for them to be treated with respect.”

Welch, 39, closed by telling potential suitors:

You will respect them, and if you don’t, I promise they won’t need my help putting you back in your place.

“Good luck, pumpkin.”

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Welch and his wife, Natasha Welch have a blended family where they’re parents to five beautiful girls, ranging from the ages of 6 to 16.

In an interview with ABC News, he said he was inspired to write his rules after overhearing a conversation at work, where he’s the manager of an all-male department in a factory in the Appalachian Region.

According to him, his coworkers were discussing intimidating men who were coming to date their daughters.

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Describing himself as a poet and a feminist, the proud papa later explained that the reason he raised his daughters to be empowered is because of his upbringing. He said although he grew up in a very “conservative household” where women were “submissive,” he’s really trying to ensure his daughters become the best women they can be.

He told Today:

”I watched my mother try to play the role of the ‘submissive wife’ for years,

It just never sat well with me, even when I was far too young to completely understand why.”

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Now, with six daughters, he says he is “hyper-sensitive” to anything that “even closely resembles misogyny.”

“I understand the mindset. I’m a very protective father,

But I’m more sensitive because a lot of the messaging has overtures of misogyny in it.

He further explained:

“I’m trying to raise them to know who they want to be and to be who they want to be and to do what makes them happy,

As a father raising daughters, I have to step back. I don’t get to build this picture of what my daughter’s lives should look like.”

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After his rules went viral and social media users flooded his page, he wrote a post crediting Natasha for being the reason he feels safe writing the kinds of things he does.

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