What say you...my boss' ex-wife just threw their daughter out of the car and drove off...

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83. I don't like it.

I understand the urge to 'throw' a teenager out of the car,. I taught school and just in an hour of class time, there were some days I wanted to throw all of them out. Usually the ones who had been acting out for a while were the ones I wanted to toss.

Teenagers know every possible button to push. They push them all the time. Parents know what buttons to push in return. It is an escalating cycle.

My problem with it is the very real possibility of something happening to them. That may seem to be a remote event, but you never know. Stranger Danger is an overblown problem. It is so scary and covered so extensively that it seems pervasive. However, it is real.

This is my opinion. I would hope that the kid would have gotten home safely, and the parent had gutted it out. That can be the hardest thing in the word to do.