Quote:You say it like there is no other place where people can get together
You don't go bowling with the whole community, you don't go to a sporting event with the whole community or go to a cinema with the whole community. Yet every week the whole community meets at the local church, there may be a local pub, in which case the whole community would meet there too, but not an underage teenager like Sarah.
Think about it though, what other ways of spending time with a teenager is there except for the consistent Sunday service?
Quote:and the church doesn't seem to be the best place to get together because as far as I know you can't talk in there.
It's not just the service, it's the entire Sunday ritual. Dressing up in the morning, getting ready, walking or driving to the church, getting out and chatting with friends and relatives, after the service you'll have some tea and more chat, maybe go for a drive afterwards and a meal out. The whole family enjoying eachothers company through the afternoon and perhaps a few drinks in the evening.
Quote:They'd be fanatical because they would rather see her have absolutely no friends whatsoever than leave the church.
Well judging from the kind of friends she has who have no quams with disrespecting her parents and telling them how they're not raising their child right, I'm not surprised. If you say that to ANY parent, expect a strong reaction.
Quote:They have destroyed her self confidence at every oppertunity, even up until recently she was not allowed to so much as speak with a non-christian.
Yet she has several non-Christian friends who were talking to hem as described in your post. Sounds like someone needs to stop exaggerating.
Quote: It's to the point where she actually doesn't own anything. She paid her money for her computer, car.ect. Everything she owns but, they made her give them the money so they could buy it and have all the insurance and purchases in their name.
Sounds like bull to me. A teenager that has the money to buy both a car and a computer.....It's more likely the parents bought these things for their child.
Quote:If I have broken up the family then I consider it a victory indeed, not me, my friends, or my friends families think her parents deserve a child.
Thank God you're not in any position of authority. Would you sterilize them? Take their kids and "re-programme" them to think like you?
Quote:Despite that many of them should have to take a school course on parenting before being allowed to have sex
I think you need to take a course in mind your own business.
Quote:However, abuse is abuse and I will never lie to myself and others when I look those people in the eye.
A Christian upbringing isn't child abuse, getting molested is child abuse, being starved is child abuse, being beaten and forced to live on the floor is child abuse. Abuse is abuse, and your parents telling you you can't hang around with that prick that started critcizing their parenting abilites is not abuse.
