I’m not critical of Abby, but I am of her parents. They made bad decisions. They expected others to pay for Abby’s rescue. They were careless with her. She could have done the same thing with another boat (with adults in it) going along side her.
She is still a kid and they are responsible for her.
By the way, I spend way more time with my kids than my parents ever did with me. My mom worked (or played tennis). My dad worked or hunted or fished. I’m a stay at home mom, and I do a lot with my kids.
On the larger decision, are they involed in their children's lives, they made no bad decision. Better to be involved and make a couple mistakes than to make the mistake of not being involved at all. On the larger scheme of things, you could not be more wrong in your criticism.
They expected others to pay for Abby’s rescue.
This is also an absurd premise. We have search and rescue all the time. When a sailboat race went very bad south of Australia, the Australian search and rescue were there. Search and rescue is there in lots of intances. They are there when you get into trouble.
Get over it. She tried something pretty daring. It might not have been the wisest thing but you won't even temper you comments with the slightest recognition that Abby's parents are a heck of a lot better than those that barely give their kids the time of day - which seems to be a lot of them these days.
Abby's parent's approach is the solution, NOT the problem. Is this FR I am on?! I'm shocked at the attitudes on here.