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To: wideawake

I agree - the girl was not culpable - but the parents certainly are.

Telling a 14 year old girl that she is free to attend parties where people do drugs and that she can stay out until 3 A.M. is tantamount telling her: "You have zero value to me and I don't much care if you live or die."

They should be prosecuted for neglect.

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Maybe the parents thought they were being tolerant and generous? From what I've heard of being a parent, it rips at their souls to see their child suffer.

Rules never made sense to me as a kid, especially since they seemed arbitrary. But if rules are explained in the context of love and protection, they would be easier to take.


28 posted on 03/28/2006 1:02:21 PM PST by ROTB (Our Constitution ... only for a moral and religious people... -- John Adams, October 11, 1798)
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To: ROTB
Maybe the parents thought they were being tolerant and generous?

I'm a parent and I would be absolutely derelict in my duty if I allowed either of my daughters to be out at a party where people take drugs until 3 in the morning.

It has nothing to do with generosity or tolerance - a 14 year old is not capable of making mature decisions in these circumstances.

31 posted on 03/28/2006 1:05:07 PM PST by wideawake
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