Topic : 06/17 A Daughter in Danger? Part 2

The  fact of the matter is you can't always trust what people say online and to keep you child safe, you HAVE to keep the computer in a room where there is a lot of family interaction. Cell phones are a privledge, not a neccesity. I'd have yanked that immediately if she were my daughter.

Having said all that, It's obvious that Shawn found herself in a difficult situation in dealing with her daughter being the "adult" age of 18 and balancing the fine line between trying to make your child understand what your concerns are without alienating them...very difficult to do, and so I'm not comfortabale at all with blaming the parents in this matter whatsoever. I do have one question. I saw the father on the sidelines but not interviewed nor did I see him on the show. I wonder what the relationship there is?

Where are the men in this family?  It is clear that this guy has no respect for women and/or the women of this family.  I am so glad that Dr. Phil is stepping up to the plate as a man for this family.

It is clear that this 18 year old is extremely immature, naive and selfish.  She has no responsibility for the outcome of her actions which either way will affect those that love her for the rest of their lives.

I thought Phil did a great job of doing the only thing he could do and that was pretend to reason with an unreasonable adult girl.

She was stopped at 16.  Great.

By 18 it is her choice. 

And her plea of 'I didn't know anything about Palestine, Muslim, Middle East,.  I don't believe.  If she is on the internet she knows how to Google..

And just from the little I've read, Muslims consider most American girls in the same vernacular as her boyfriend calls her.  And she has proved it by being there, hasn't she?

But on the other hand there are many of the same drama's being played out in the US.