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...suburban high school. A Latino kid does the same in his inner-city neighborhood. Both get caught. Both are first-time offenders. The white kid walks into juvenile court with his parents, his priest, a good lawyer--and medical coverage. The Latino kid walks into court with his mom, no legal resources and no insurance. The judge lets the white kid go with his family; he's placed in a private treatment program. The minority kid has no such option. He's detained...
...friend's nine-year-old son recently returned, elated, after a weekend with a classmate and his family. "Guess what, Mom?" he crowed. He and his buddy had eaten loads of junk, dodged two bedtimes and, best of all, played with BB guns and pocketknives. His mother, an admitted health and safety nut, was shocked. "These are such nice people," she said. "I can't believe they let my kid run wild without giving me the chance to say no--and believe me, I would have...
...parents are worried when their children are in the care of someone else, but the anxieties mount when the child is in his or her "tweens"--the awkward years between 8 and 14, when almost anyone seems cooler than Mom and Dad. While these kids are old enough to call you mean and overprotective, they're not old enough to grab the car keys. Hence my friend's concern with the stand-ins she didn't know she had appointed: the classmate's more permissive parents...
...friend's brother, who'd just got his driver's license. "I had to tell the other mother, 'I just have a thing about teenage drivers, so I'd rather take her myself.'" A hidden bonus: her daughter learned to handle the humiliation of a hands-on mom early on, so now she expects Sagarese to check in with her friends' parents--and behaves accordingly...
Meanwhile, my friend is still smarting from her son's illicit weekend, which gave him the dangerous impression that his parents' rules don't apply when he's away from home. "I'm not sure what to say to the other mom without offending her," reports my friend, "but I know I have to say something." She'd better think fast: her son has a standing invitation to go back...