The mother who is letting her 13 year old go out dressed as though she's a 21 year old club goer is…well, I'll be kind and say she naive and a push over. Even putting aside the potential for dangerous situations(which there is undoubtedly), what is it doing to her values and state of mental health? I don't mean in terms of purity or anything like that, but in terms of finding value in others and oneself outside of materialistic concerns. I remember being 13, I know I was a child. Even compared to my 16 or 17 year old self, I was very young. There's no way I'd have really had the foresight to appreciate what I was doing – if I was in this girl's position. This is what parents are bloody supposed to do, they are supposed to step in and not allow children to do things that are not good for them. This girl's mom – I'm sure she loves her daughter, but I do not understand parents who are so afraid of their child ever being angry with them. It is cowardly and it's a failing in their parental duties.
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