My 14-year-old daughter has been skipping school to smoke weed with her boyfriend and when I found out I just asked her to be safe and she looked at me with contempt.
More people experience this than they realize.
Children often interpret parental permissiveness as indifference, creating the very disconnection we sought to avoid.
“Where Are You with Permissive parenting and its outcomes?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.