“Your posts sound like you know him, and his family quite well.”
I do know this about the father (as do you):
His daughter willingly left campus to participate in sexual congress. She wasn’t dragged off campus in chains. She made a choice.
The father discovered his daughter left school and had sex with a boy.
The father became angry. Instead of addressing his daughter’s responsibility in making the choice to leave school and have sex he chose to beat her co-conspirator.
1. The father has a temper which expresses itself in physical violence.
2. The father ignores the law.
3. The father blames someone else for the problem daughter’s choices which HE has ‘raised’.
4. In his mind he has abnegated any personal responsibility for his and his daughter’s acts.
5. He had the right to address ONLY his daughter’s behavior. And even then he would have had NO right to beat her either.
And YOU ‘understand’ and cheer his example.
You keep going on about “in his mind”, etc. I do not know what was “in his mind” and neither do you. I also do not know what, if anything, he did with his daughter, and neither do you. I do not know if there is a history with the 17 year old male, and neither do you.
I’m glad that you think it is ok for a 17 year old male to screw your 15 year old daughter. Now, remember when that happens, you must buy the boy a beer, cuz boys will be boys and can’t be held responsible for anything they do when it comes to sex. They are just mindless animals with automatic zippers. While the boy is drinking that beer, why have a nice friendly, fireside chat with him about how inappropriate it was for him to do your daughter, and would he please refrain from doing so in the future. Make sure that you put your hand on his arm, and give him a real ernest look while you are giving your oprah talk to him. I’m sure that he’ll repent and throw himself on the floor weeping with shame, and never misbehave again.