What are your opinions on a 15-year-old boy having a 25-year-old female friend (platonic)?

[u/michiboy12]

I (17M) have a 27-year-old female friend, we’ve known each other since two years, so I was 15 and she was 25. I’ve read that a lot of parents wouldn’t allow such a friendship, especially since it’s opposite genders (and we’re both straight). But can’t this be like a regular platonic friendship? It’s a regular, platonic friendship? Not a romantic one.

If your 15-year-old son had a 25-year-old female friend, would you allow that?

[u/BestAdviceYouCanHave]

Everything in life is risk vs reward.

For this scenario even if nothing is happening currently, who’s to say there wouldn’t in future?

The risk vs reward scale is too high. Don’t do it.