Quote From: scnormanI think that by pulling Amanda away from her boyfriend they are setting themselves up for an angry adult. So what if she talks on the phone with her boyfriend? Is that not what people do, how could we make an assumption like she going to run away? If people would stop accusations of her and trust that she's a smart girl who wants a little respect and a little freedom. No one wants to be attack and be called a liar. On one want to be held down and have things taken away from them.
Amanda mother could try sitting down and having a talk with her child, not to just talk but to also listen and listen hard. Amanda could have chose drugs she could have chose a gang she could have chose to end her life, a lot of teenagers do but she chose to compromise.
Teenagers talk on the phone and they do it a lot, with boyfriends and best friends and that’s the best years of their lives. She’s young and in love and needs more than ever to have a mother who will be there when and if her poppy love or first love comes to and end.
& your parents don't approve of your boyfriend, you don't have the "right" to talk to him on the cell phone. Her boyfriend & his family aided & abetted her running away & staying out of school. Amanda's parents are trying their best to protect their daughter from her bad choices. I completely agree with them & respect them for it.
As for calling Amanda a liar, she admitted to lying to her boyfriend's mother about having parental permission to leave with the family. Also, it shows the bf's family's poor judgement to take a child's word for this & not directly check with the parents.
