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[quote=Anonymous]DD14 has a close friend. The girls get together often but the one thing about this friend’s parents is, they come and go when girlfriends are over. Sometimes no adult is home for periods of time. I’m generally fine with this because they are high schoolers, but it’s a thing I keep in mind.

Tonight this friend had her first co-ed get together. I didn’t even know about it until this evening when DD told me about it, confessing that she didn’t want to go because she didn’t want to hang out with some of the boys who would be attending. I thought to myself but didn’t say out loud, that I likely wouldn’t have allowed her to go anyway, considering how the parents come and go like they do.

But now I’m wondering, as she is getting older, how this should work going forward. I know the question is “will the parents be there”, and in this friend’s case, the answer is usually “yes”, but I have no faith that the parents won’t leave and things will get out of hand or the kids will abuse this. Is she just never allowed to go to this house when we know boys will be there, since it’s likely parents WON’T? Or do you at some point just drop the reins and trust your parenting? 
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