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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Early puberty, risk-taking personality, and lack of supervision.

I don’t get the people here saying parenting doesn’t play a role. I have a 14-year-old who doesn’t even go to parties. He plays online games with friends, goes to sports, and walks the dog. Where in there would he be smoking pot and having sex?

In contrast, I had a boyfriend once who said he first had sex at 13, with an older girl. I can’t even imagine when or how. When mine was 13 he still played with legos.[/quote]

If it was me, he would be climbing out the window. Really some kids are so awful they just can’t be controlled with good parenting. That said I think that parents who are emotionally absent/don’t at least try to enforce form boundaries are far more likely to have kids like this. [/quote]

Thankfully now there are alarms, cameras and more to help with that.[/quote]

Man you guys are naive. You think you can cage a kid in a house? What about when they’re going to and from school? When you’re sleeping? In the shower? Maybe, god forbid, when you take a night out for yourselves? A camera or alarm system  isn’t going to stop that. If a kid is determined enough they’ll get out of the house. In fact I think that a parent who sets up an alarm system so their kid stays inside is just asking for more defiance. [/quote]

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