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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean like - your teenage kid invites 2 friends over for a sleepover.  The kids decide to go and see a movie. You think that's fine. While at the movie theater, one of the kids spots another friend that they know at the theater and leaves with that person. Your kid and the remaining friend watch the movie, look around for their friend after the movie and finally leave to go home. Later that kid gets busted for underage drinking.  That kid's parent blames you for it.

Or something like that?[/quote]

Thanks for the insightful, well thought out example.  OP here.  No, actually, if girls were at the mall and wanted (mostly one girl in particular) to meet with a boy, and the other parents flipped out on you for their DC wanting to meet the someone of the opposite gender.  That DC parents tried to somehow put it on you, if they don't trust their own kid.

Another example, if the other parent tries to orchestrate activities based on who they want their kids to hang out with. Don't teens usually choose their own friends/activities, within reason?

This is all given that your child has not given you reason not to trust them, and this is how you do things, but you don't expect other parents to subscribe to your house rules (unless at your house, as PP stated).  What if the other parent starts coming down on you, for no reason (other than they need to mind their own)?

Hopefully I am making sense about a situation that makes no sense to me.  OP here. [/quote]

So your DD invited 2 other girls to the mall under the guise of shopping and what really happened was she wanted to go off with a boy and have her friends cover for her and her friends didn't want to or she wanted her friends to go somewhere, wait while she hung out with the boy and then come back to the mall to be picked up by you.

Yeah as a parent I would be pissed on my DD's behalf. [/quote]

You would be pissed at Op?  I can see not wanting your daughter to hang out with the girl who did this.  But dropping the girls off to shop was not wrong and if Op had no idea that her daughter was planning to ditch her friends/use them as cover while she went off somewhere with a boy and Op had no reason to suspect that her daughter would do that....why be mad at Op?[/quote]

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