I will TOP your “the mom should NOT have picked him up”
With
MOM shouldn’t have put her son in that position.
I may be older than 2 kinds of dirt, but my mother - a Registered Nurse - was turned down by the Air Force because I was 16 and my sister was 14 with FAMILY ‘standing by’ to take us in.
And she was NOT over age for the program she was applying for.
Also, the day I turned 16 Allstate (Sears?) cancelled her auto insurance.
When I went in the Navy at 17 she was unable to get it back.
“When I went in the Navy at 17 she was unable to get it back.”
So when was she able to get it back, and hopefully didn’t go back with Allstate.