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Originally posted by Double D
Not to make light of your mom's statement, but that line must come from an ancient parenting handbook somewhere (my own mother said the same thing--almost to the word), as you and several others have recounted how their parents too, told them--go to jail, you're on your own.
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I think that to some extent this shows how times have changed. It used to be that parents sided with the police and were all for letting their kid spend the night in jail if they were out causing mischief. However, as times have changed, people have begun to distrust the police and in many ways they have almost become the enemy. Now when someone’s child is arrested the first thought seems to be that the police have done something wrong. Sort of the opposite of how it was.