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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't help but wonder how the family relationships were at the cousin's house a few days before mom read the teenager's diary.  Was everything just peachy keen then?

Is there any chance the mom of this teen is just way over the top reacting and will calm down in a few days and say sorry to her daughter and the parents will take her back and everything will be okay? [/quote]

I'm not sure exactly how things were going in the household, but I know that in general over the years there has been a lot of tension between my cousin and her parents. She never really seemed to like her parents or her home life, but I gather that that's somewhat typical of teens and prior to all heck breaking loose with this incident most of the things she mentioned being unhappy about seemed like just exceptionally strict and demanding parents, nothing that raised concerns of abuse (beyond the spoon spanking, which I cannot call abuse because the legal authorities determined it wasn't at the time...)

I really, really hope you're right and her parents calm down over the weekend and change their attitudes/reactions. Nobody intends to do anything official until Monday at the earliest specifically in order to give them that time in case this was just a really bad first reaction to learning something shocking. I'm not very optimistic that that'll be what happens, but I'm really hoping I'm wrong because that is what I want to happen here.[/quote]

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