Re:Hang on... (Score 1)

The fact that teens sneak out does not mean that the parents aren't lousy.

Augh!!!!! Reword that immediately, its burning my eyes. Do you know where burden of proof lies? It lies on the one making the assertion. You are not supposed to assume something until evidence to the contrary, you are supposed to assume something given evidence, and what the parent poster said was that we cannot assume it was bad parenting given the small amount of details that we were given.

I didn't sneak out, because I knew I could go to my parents and tell them exactly where I was going.

So you would have no problem with telling them when you were 14 that you were going to go have dinner and a movie with a 19 year old young man?

I am quite sure it was bad parenting that got her in that situation, but I would never be so silly as to assert it given so few details. What I do think is evidence of their bad parenting is that they somehow expect that MySpace was responsible for their daughter going to dinner and a movie with a 19 year old and then going to his apartment afterwards of her own free will and long after MySpace was out of the picture...