I gotta lean toward the “denial” aspect for both sets of parents. These punks coasted for FOUR freeking years. Minimal school. No apparent jobs. They’ve been legal adults all that time. Wot the bleep did the parents think their career paths might have been? My first guess is that the parents are trying like hexx to distance themselves from these dummies behavior.
Side question but how far back did Dad give the punk Gramp’s rifle? And, oh, yeah, who paid for the Challenger?
“who paid for the Challenger?”
There is that.
Those parents were praying it was just a phase.
But it was an ever-widening path to sin.