It’s not always bad parents. kids are kids.
Your right but the lawyers can't make any money without someone to blame for nature taking it's course. Looking back at the things my friends and myself did in our teen years it's a wonder any of us survived. But control freaks will always conveniently forget their own past and rail against nature and the ways of life.
Kids are only kids based on where the parents draw the line. The kids may from time to time go over that line, but in this case, the line should have been drawn much sooner. If I’d have taken my parents car, I should have just as well killed myself, since the result would have been the same - death.