To be really angry and upset by this article about how this mum is raising her daugheter

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Firstly, I don't actually read the daily mail, just having a sneaky perv !
Secondly the reason it makes so upset is it is exactly how I was brought up by my mother and it has been affecting me ever since, I am now 27.
My mother was an extremely liberal head teacher and I was allowed to drink, smoke, take drugs and stay out all night & sleep with men from the age of around 14. I had a tattoo and piercing on my 14th birthday. I had no boundaries and ended up getting raped by an older man, sexually assaulted by another and ended up with a bad drug and alcohol problem which went on until I was around 23. I have been in counselling on and off ever since and can happily say I now have my life back on track, 2 wonderful children and another on the way. I think the way this mother is raising her daughter is unforgivable and 14 is way too young to be allowed to have free rein, she is still a CHILD ffs.

Cory
Exactly my thoughts.

The sad thing is that there are so many parents doing Home Ed fantastically well and this makes them sound like feckless lazy parents who just want an easy life. HE would not be for me - I am lucky to make it through homework once a week - but many do well with it.

As to how she is bringing up her daughter - well, she is not, is she? Her daughter is bringing herself up.

I saw this family featured on one of those teen beauty pageant ( godawful) programmes, and the girl was much more innocent then, and at that time the stepfather was there and he seemed lovely, but very shunted out with this aspirational mother with no sense. DH and I said he was the only one with any sense in that family and now he's gone.