>>It is hard to think that someone who has what she has in her home and family would want to run away with a wierdo and live like a bum.<<
She's a teenage girl. Teenage girls rebel in all kinds of illogical ways and she wouldn't be the first who wanted to get away from parental control even if she had to live like a bum. It's only after kids do that for a while that it tends to loose it's appeal.