Use common sense and awareness. If you want to wear a short skirt or low cut blouse to a cocktail party or a nightclub, wear it. Just be aware of where you are and where you will have to go when you want to go home. Have fun at the club, but when it is time to go home ask a close friend or an employee to walk you to your car. Instead of allowing the unknown individual to come to one's home, a single woman, or even an woman living with other women, should meet the date at a mutually agreed upon location. This meeting place should be very visible and public, thus leaving no opportunity for a would-be attacker to gain an unacceptable advantage. The feeling that one looks better and is able to protect themselves from potential perpetrators, enables the individual to feel confident about their appearance and their ability. However, if an individual chooses a simple women's self defense course, with no additional physical training, is still going to feel more confident about their ability for personal protection. Women's Self Defense and Your Children Besides your own life and probably more important than your own life your, children's welfare and safety are the most important things in your life. You want to protect them from the evils of the world and want them to have a better life than you have had. How are you going to protect them in these trubulent times. You do not want to over react but you feel threatened and your mind is racing for fear. You verbally address the man, but he still keeps walking forward. You then scream for help, but there is nobody there to hear you. He lunges for you and grabs your hair. You now wished you have taken a women's self-defense course but now it is too late. You need to be ready when the moment comes so that you can protect what is precious to you, your dignity, your body, and your life. A women's self defense course can be easily found within your community. Call your local law enforcement agency and ask if they offer the service. Sometimes your YMCA will host a women's defense course which is at a low cost or sometimes free.