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To: TigersEye
Insisting that your parents provide you with security, shelter and sustenance while exercising you own adult free-will to engage in self-destructive behavior, or behavior that is antithetical to the standards of morality and ethics that they set for their own household, is to ask your parents to participate in it.

I believe if you read my thoughts regarding this, I've never supported him financing her behavior. It's his house, his right to pay for education, his right to tell her to go it on her own with regard to how she finds shelter, food and education. I have expressed concern about not speaking to her.

an Open line to counsel, not preach, to encourage and not judge is going to be necessary. Sometimes these situations are not all or nothing propositions. He must be careful to not entirely shut her out but always have some sort of open door to allow re-entry.

624 posted on 02/15/2005 8:38:34 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks
He must be careful to not entirely shut her out but always have some sort of open door to allow re-entry.

I think it's a tad pedantic to give such cautionary tips. I thing we all know "not speaking to her" is pretty much the colloquial way of saying "she can talk to me any time she likes, but she knows what the subject will be, and how it will turn out if we're going speak of anything else ever again."

625 posted on 02/15/2005 8:47:55 AM PST by papertyger (If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.)
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To: joesbucks
I have expressed concern about not speaking to her. ... He must be careful to not entirely shut her out but always have some sort of open door to allow re-entry.

Raise your children as you wish, Keyes may do the same, and I will make no judgement on either of you.

No baseball bats or bullwhips though. ; )

632 posted on 02/15/2005 9:07:20 AM PST by TigersEye (Intellectuals only exist if you think they do.)
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