A Loving Father

[317 words] I recall an interview I once read of a young teenage girl. At one point in the exchange, she remarked, ”l know for a fact that my parents don’t love me.” Why do you think this teenage daughter said that? Here’s what ran through my mind when I read those words. Perhaps her parents didn’t let her go out with her friends as much as she would have liked, or perhaps when she did go out, they made her come home much earlier than she desired. Maybe they restricted the time she could spend on her phone and/or heavily monitored her use of it. Perhaps she was upset because they wouldn’t let her date. Maybe they consistently pushed her to complete her chores and homework assignments. The interviewer probed, ”Why do you think your parents don’t love you?” She replied, “Well..it’s because they never tell me no. They…