Parenting and teenage relationships

[jaguar]

Let me put it this way. He straight up told me he doesn't care if she's playing him, or cheating on Alex. In my book, that makes him dumb, inexperienced, and horny, or all of the above. Don't rule out the dumb factor.

I don't see why. If it is dumb, how do you expect him to learn?

That applied in the UK, where the kids graduate high school and drink at age 16.

Yes and no, most go on to college and HS continues till 18 in australia where I finished my schooling. Personally I was young so I finished a bit before my 18th birthday.

Then you don't have that kind of relationship with your parents.

No, not really, it alwasy worked on the priciple that they trusted me enough to know I wasn't going to do anything stupid and I didn't, fairly simple really. Who I happened to be seeing was my affair. Everyone I knew worked on a similar principle to varying degrees, parents knew the friend circle vaguely, good mates and anything that lasted a while but it stopped about there. I don't think it is a parental thing.