>> How supportive, or even aware, were they when their children started developing such a relationship? How good had they been as parents until that point?
Quite FMR. You would expect a proper set of relations to maintain surveillance on children of that age, and run serious interference when necessary. That's what you or I would do.
But even we might be outflanked by the modern pre-adolescent. We can't follow the little brutes around all the time. All it takes is a quick one behind the bike sheds.
I can't say I envy those nippers, although I would have been green with envy when I was (frankly) a bit older than them... I'm afraid nuclear tests, or the internet, or something anyway, has interfered with whatever it was that kept us chaste until our mid-teens at least. I don't approve, but what can you do?
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