Provided you ever heard about it.

Depending how parents handle certain issues with their child, they might be incentivized to hide everything regarding that topic from them. Sexuality can be one of those topics, especially in catholic Spain.

Also: if you are the type, your kiddo might not tell you because she is afraid of what you might do if she does. Kids tend to learn such things about their parents pretty quickly and in such a situation they typically just want it to go away not have their parent storm into school with a red face and give the rest of the school yet another story that can be told.

If you love your kid, you consider their perspective.

At no point did I suggest violence or any other unreasonable actions like screaming at school employees. I just thought it unbelievable that there would be a several-thousand word article about what mothers are doing to fix the problem without a single mention of what the fathers are doing to fix the problem. If I was in this situation I would be doing anything I could to help.

I literally cannot believe I am being downvoted, flagged, and tsk-tsk’d at for daring to suggest that fathers should care about the safety and well-being of their daughters.

I didn't read it as such, I just replied like this because there might be people out there who need to read it. There are too many men who believe being strong means being aggressive, even if in their mind they do it for their kids. If the kids see that different it can lead to a growing gap between those men and their kids.

That is bad, so those who need to think about this should do so.

To you it's sad that Spain is progressive? What would rather it be? Regressive?

“Progressive” means a set of certain policies, and not actually progressive

Sadly, the word has been thoroughly hijacked

Just like conservative. They don't want to conserve anything anymore, they just want to make money.

Seems like the socialists who want to socialize everything are at least honest.

I am a conservative. Not that I want to flaunt my political affiliation, because I know no one cares, but in HN "X is one of the most progressive countries" could sound like an endorsement, and I wanted to make sure that it didn't sound that way.

I am from another "catholic" european country (where most people are born into catholicism), the religion, despite being rightfully irrelevant in most people's lives still has some impact on which topics people want to openly talk about.

I spent half my life in a catholic country and the other half in a protestant one — so I think I can somewhat judge the impact the religion has even on mostly unreligious people.