I wish teenagers were capable of realizing just how much their hard-working parents love them, how much sacrifice it costs them to hold down responsible jobs and then to do the jobs at home in order to provide a comfortable shelter for their children.
My parents are gone, and I’m now old myself. I look back on them and realize now that they were the only people standing between me and an orphans’ home or worse. This early “dating” business is pure crapola. It generally leads to boredom and promiscuity and the parents having to raise grandchildren courtesy of some spoiled little boy who sweet talked their daughter. - I, frankly, wish my parents had flat disallowed me to date until I graduated from high school. I escaped the worst situations, but it’s a wonder. (I can’t imagine being cold enough to plot to have my parents killed.)
I shudder to think what it would be like to look back on having been responsible for something like this, after reaching an age and gaining the wisdom to know how much her parents loved her and tried to protect her.
I have talked to one “person” today locally that said the parents were probably too strict and you cannot micro-manage kids. I said my parents did and so do I. Also argued that homeschooling is at fault here since daughter was not prepared for the real world.