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unbelievable

i talked to a young friend of mine today and she told me something that i'll just describe as... unbelievable.

a year or so ago, my friend (11th grade) declared that she was a lesbian. her parents eventually found out and although they weren't happy about it, seemed to accept it.

my friend was explaining to me that she and her girlfriend since the summer had just broken up over the weekend. puzzled, i said, "but she was over at your house on monday when i was talking to you on the phone." she then said, "yah, she was picking up her stuff cuz she had been living with me for a couple of months after she got kicked out of her own home."

WHAT!? her girlfriend (which also means her lover) had been living with her? sleeping in her bedroom? so of course, i ask, "your parents let her live with you and stay in your room?" she then lets out a little chuckle and says, "yah, my parents didn't know we were dating."

WHAT!? how are parents so clueless? they know she is gay. it wasn't just a day or a week that this girl was living in their house - it was a couple of months. how did they not pick up on what was going on between these two girls? and if they did know, did they just not want the confrontation? if your child wasn't gay, you wouldn't let a "friend" of the opposite sex stay in the same room as your child - would you?

sometimes i just don't get parents.
UNBELIEVABLE!

It is scary how someone can be a parent and do very little parenting.

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