Would you let your daughter go to a slumber party with boys? Two mothers with opposing views on the subject discuss their points of view and psychotherapist Dr. Rosaria Love shares her professional opinion.

Sharon has been hosting co-ed sleepovers since her daughter was 6 (she's now 13). She always knows the kids that stay over at her house and thinks the parties promote healthy relationships between boys and girls. "I think it brings kids closer together," she says.

Lisa doesn't think it's appropriate for her 12-year-old daughter to have sleepovers with boys. "I don't understand the importance of children, especially in puberty, sleeping in the same room," she says. "They're inviting the possibilty of trouble to happen."

"I think it's unfair to put that kind of responsibility on adolescents who are already trying to figure out how to manage girl/boy relationships, how they're going to deal with peer pressure," says Dr. Love. "Why place another burden on them? Because in that kind of situation, it's so easy to cross that line. Why put them in that situation?"

Eighteen-year-old Rachael brings an additional point of view to this debate. Her mother never let her go to sleepovers with boys, even though her best friend in high school was male. "My mom never let me go and I never understood why. But then when I snuck out and went to one of the sleepovers I realized there's always room for that 'what if,' there's always room for kids to do whatever they feel like doing. I felt uncomfortable and from that day I realized that my mom was right and I shouldn't be going to co-ed sleepovers."

"It's not about not trusting your own children," says Dr. Love. "It is that you don't have control over the situation you're putting your child into... so why place them in a situation that can be a risk?"