So, what did the mother expect? That the guy let the poor girl bleed thorugh all of her underwear and pants until she could get home?!

NTA. But the mother here is definitely TA. Menstruation is normal. About time people started normalizing it. It's plain biology, for God's sake!

Who really is the creep? The one who behaves like a responsible, empathic person or the one who assumes a man helping a girl automatically is a sexual offender? With more people like this guy and less like the bigot mother life for teenagers would be much easier.

Would he be creepy for also letting her use toilet paper? Like, wtf is wrong with people and what is all this f*cking period shaming crap about. Can we move past this already.

No doubt in my mind that the mother will be informing her friends that this guy is a sexual predator and a creep, twisting the facts as she goes along.

I just place this here: Some uneducated parents think a tampon is sexual and thus forbid their daughters to use them... Don’t ask me how this evolved, it’s not logical in any way... But this is my guess for the mother to accuse him of being a creep, as he helped her daughter put something in herself...

I will never understand how periods, which are a natural thing, came to be seen as so taboo. There is nothing creepy or wrong about a father having menstrual products in his home for his daughter and their is nothing wrong with him helping out his daughter's friend. Actually, he didn't do anything other than investigate screaming in his house and inform the mother about what happened. His daughter took care of the rest. If this was the mother's reaction, we now know why the girl screamed.

Poor chid with a Karen for a mom.

Sounds like this poor girl got no preparation whatsoever about what to expect. Which would be outrageous enough if she were 10 or 11, but if she's the same age as the daughter, she's 13! That is way past old enough to have been taught about menarche.

How he heck would he be TA???? Y’all just gonna sit there and bleed to death?

I think its wonderful that you are such a modern dad not afraid to treat normal life events as something to be ashamed of, and there are tons of dads out there just like you, who deserve a salute, don't let some paranoid stuck up drama queen Karen try to tell you otherwise

That's so sad and unfortunate for this amazing dad!! He more then prepared his daughter for the moment and she was informed when it did happen!! We need more fathers in daughters lives that are able to talk to their daughters about puberty and what's happening to their bodies! Hell by the mother's reaction to the fathers actions just means we need more parents that are better able to go into this type of situation without embarrassed their daughters or making them feel bad about it!!! The education system doesn't help and shouldn't be relied on!

This is one of the many reasons my husband and I decided before we even had kids that we wouldn't be doing sleepovers. There just too much risk, whether it's genuine or perceived. My husband won't even give lifts to my daughters' friends without me, because he just doesn't want there to be any chance some overly-protective patent will think something is up. It's been rough telling our kids 'no' all the time, but we hope they understand when they're adults. We allow "late-overs" where they can stay as late as they want until everyone is ready to sleep, then we pick them up, they come home to sleep, then they go back in the morning early so they can do breakfast and any other next day activities. It's made the disappointment less.

You are best father you can be to your daughter in this matter and her friends including, the mother should be ashamed of herself but maybe it was just panic reaction, maybe she thought she has couple more years before her daughter turns to a woman, etc. I'd give her call and asks if she wants to discuss that because she hurt your feelings in front of both girls and would be nice if she wanted to explain what was so inappropriate.

My daughter, who then lived with her mom on the opposite coast, came to visit when she was just about the age to begin menstruating. I discussed it with her mom, bought a variety of sanitary products, and made sure there would be a woman friend around to help her use them should the need arise. (It didn't) Fast forward 16 years and she's using my bathroom and finds them and asks, not knowing why I had them, if she could take some tampons as she was due. We shared a laugh when I told her they'd been waiting for her for years.

NTA That other parent needs to be investigated.

What was it about this situation that she thought was creepy? I don't get it.

he should have called social services on the mother. the girl may be abused

This world is a mess. Men are not safe anywhere. It is a sick sick sick world and everyone had sick sick sick thoughts considering men around children.

Some people are sooo idiotic that I just want to explode. What were you supposed to do? Not help her and just let her be scared and bleed??? I remember and old foster mom not wanting to wear tampons because women shouldn’t be putting things into their body before marriage😵‍💫. She was a radical Christian btw….

I'm scared for this girl. If her mother is freaked out by being open about periods, I can't imagine how she would teach the girl about responsible sex. I hope OP encourages his daughter to be available to that girl to talk about things like that (I assume you're also good with your daughter about that). If not, I can see a 15 year old pregnancy in friend's future.

Note to self: include a scene where a single father talks to his daughter about periods and such in a book, preferably "My Modern-Day Medusa".

NTA, except if the friend was my daughter I'd be kinda sad that that moment was spent with her friend's dad. That's a big moment. He should have called mom. But definitely NOT creepy.

I ....can't even.... wtf is wrong with people. Seriously what in the ..... is wrong with people. I personally want to pay a visit to this idiot mom. I would be BEYOND grateful had one of my daughters been in this position and the single dad was prepared and not weird about it. Can every parent from this moment on please PLEASE teach your kids both girl and boy that periods are NORMAL and OK??? Please teach your boys not to be grossed out. Make them kits for their backpacks in case one of their girl-friends have an emergency at school. Please include both tampons and pads as you don't know their preference. Add some chocolate and midol for good measure. And if you have a friend that acts like this mother, please punch her.

My guess is that the Mom was embarrassed that she hadn't prepared her daughter for this. If there's screaming and crying, chances are the daughter did not really get the kind of help and preparation from her Mom that she needed, and obviously didn't know what to expect or what to do. My guess is the Mom was embarrassed about not doing her job, so she took it out on the guy. How dare he be a responsible adult! Oh my! But I also feel it's not 100% the Mom's fault. Despite all our progress, we continue to treat menstruation as something taboo instead of a natural part of life. We continue to treat at as something to be ashamed of. We shouldn't.

Why has BP just become about posting Reddit threads? If I wanted to read NTA, I'd read it on Reddit.

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Thanks for that lovely picture of a woman sitting on the toilet with her panties around he ankles, holding a panty liner. Really added to the creepiness of the article

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Those Americans are really something else. I just can't wrap my head around how stupid they are. This is not prude, it's just plain stupid. I am so sorry for all the sane people over there who have to deal with these idiots.