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College Student Granted Restraining Order Against Own Parents for Being Overbearing — But Wait Until You Hear the Details

Dec. 28, 2012 8:53am Jonathon M. Seidl

Aubrey Ireland Wins Restraining Order Stalking Case Against Parents in Cincinnati

Aubrey Ireland (Source: Twitter via HuffPo)

Are you a parent? Has your child ever accused you of meddling? While such accusations are many times levied on a whim, you may want to pay attention to this story and weigh in.

There’s a term out there called “helicopter parents” — moms and dads who do more than just take an interest in their kids, but try to dictate their every move, take an interest in every detail, and even live vicariously through their sons and daughters. Twenty-one year old Aubrey Ireland knows the type full well. That’s because she just won a restraining order case against her parents who have taken the idea of being involved to a whole new extreme.

Aubrey is a senior actress at the University of Cincinnati’s prestigious College-Conservatory of Music. This fall, she finally had it with her overbearing parents. The school was tired of it, too, having witnessed the odd behavior for years. After Aubrey filed a civil stalking case against them and the judge heard the details, he agreed to order Aubrey’s parent to stay away.

So what were they doing? The Cincinnati Inquirer has the surprising accusations, which include the parents installing tracking software on Aubrey’s electronics (emphasis added):

Despite her good grades and success in musical shows, David and Julie Ireland often drove 600 miles from Leawood, Kan., to visit their daughter unannounced. They accused her of using illegal drugs, promiscuity and suffering from mental woes. She insisted none of that was true and asked them to stop, but their accusations escalated. They informed her department head she had mental issues that could force them to go to court to have her treated.

The parents knew about what they saw as their daughter’s problems because, they admit, they installed monitoring software on her laptop and cellphone, allowing them to see her every keystroke and phone number dialed or received. It was “like I was a dog with a collar on,” said the daughter, a dean’s list student every quarter.

The parents became such an issue that the school hired security guards to keep them out of their daughter’s performances. When the parents stopped paying her tuition because she’d cut off all contact with them, the school gave her a full scholarship for her final year.

“It’s just been really embarrassing and upsetting to have my parents come to my university when I’m a grown adult and just basically slander my name and follow me around,” the accomplished young actress said in court.

Her mother responded: “She’s an only child who was catered to all her life by loving parents. We’re not bothering her. We’re not a problem.”

(Source: Facebook)

Aubrey posing during her run in the musical “Evita.” (Photo: Facebook)

The relationship, to say the least, isn’t doing well. Julie Ireland is trying to get back the $66,000 the parents had already spent on Aubrey’s education and have accused her of being a “good actress and lying.” A third-party “interventionist,” however, has even sided with Aubrey.

Aubrey posing with what one Facebook user says is her Dad. (Source: Facebook)

So for now, the parents have been ordered to stay at least 500 feet away from their daughter until Sept 23, 2013.

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This story has been updated.

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Comments (363)

ktmrider1
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:30am
can we get a restrainig order against overbearing democrat polititians?

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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:45am
  I wish, great point. If I can just add Police and GOV(Fed, State, Local) to the list.
  
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- kickagrandma
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:19am
  On your side!
  
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- SageInWaiting
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:25am
  Won’t work… the court has proven it will take action against parents but not Nannies.
  
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- Ishmot2
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:36am
  Well was she miss using their money, or not. If she was doing drugs and drinking on their dime; I say no they were not overbearing,but if she’s there on her own dime and is paying them back as agreed, then; yes they should let the druggy do her thing, very hard to do as a parent, I know. You haven’t seen anything, on over bearing Democrats yet!
  
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- Maji
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:45am
  Woj.W
  Thats what I was thinking!
  They just discribed the Obama gov. today!
  Watching your “Laptop” reading your “emails” ,Listening to phone calls!
  Supprise visits from the gov. with a warrant they issued themselves.
  
  (Can yu say “Homily”)
  
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- love the kids
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:47am
  I’m not saying that the parents are not overbearing, but the Govt. has caused this. They make the parents responsible for mistakes that the kids make on their own until they are 21, and now they have tied the kids to the parents with health care until the age of 26. This law will not be good in the long run.
  
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- Mr Sanders
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:03pm
  @KTM
  
  Couldn’t have said it any better….. and an idea!?
  
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- bluehen
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:06pm
  @KTMRIDER1
  
  Its obamas fault. It always is. I just wish we could impeach him or something. I mean, he is Marxist communist, sexist, left wing loon who just wants to end the middle class. I mean, if not for the gov’t doing what its been doing, then the doing wouldn’t get done. Its all his fault. His fault and Hillary Clinton’s. SHAME
  
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- AmericanEagle1392
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:39pm
  What we really need is a restraining order on disgusting Harry Reid for impersonating a human being.
  
  BTW, The girl is gorgeous, brilliant and SANE. Her parents are SICKOS who need to get a life.
  
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- bigdog71360
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:49pm
  I wish that were possible!
  
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- Kaoscontrol
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:56pm
  I can’t fault the parents for trying, but it’s nearly impossible to “legislate” morality. A change of heart in the daughter is what would make a difference. I was raised by liberal progressive parents who were concerned by my wayward living— but when I became a born again Christian?…That’s when the crap REALLY hit the fan.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:04pm
  She will never be a success in hollywood or anywhere else that “acting” is required except the porn industry. She is simply not attractive enough. Only the super hottest and talented make it to the big time. Hollywood will chew her up and spit her out as a failed drug addicted porn has-been.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:07pm
  From the “salaried” desk, ( beanbag chair) of Bluehen! Dear diary; woke up early this morning! (11:15). Worked out, (plodded up the stairs). Had breakfast prepared for me. (Mom), “did a great job with the French toast!” Made my way to work, (back down the stairs). Began my high profile job (trolling at The Blaze) at 12:06. Will be at it all day long, (till 5:00 pm, Jersey shore’s on then!) you just can’t believe my success!!!
  
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- ChongRRMC
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:17pm
  With all due respect…can we stick to the story at hand ? I agree with your statement, but it has nothing to do with this story.
  
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- hereandnow
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:24pm
  Great parody… we expect the government to take care of us (providing Jobs, Healthcare?, etc.), and then we get upset because they want to keep checks on us… (SSN, Phone #, Address, Taxes, Bank statements, I.P address’s, Healthcare#, credit card purchases, registering of your guns, etc.).
  
  She is 21 years old… whether the parents babied her or not. She is an adult by current standards. Whether the parents made a poor investment is between them… at least they had a choice. Where this school can decide (like most schools) to give out scholarships based on home life is questionable at most (maybe another new category), allowing a government total control of its citizens is what is of concern. Unfortunately, half this country is screaming for more government control. Go figure???
  
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- nichevo
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:42pm
  sorry KTM, you can’t…..
  
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- hwyllie
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:09pm
  where in this story does it say she’s a druggy @ ISHMOT2 ? Why would you call her a druggy, it doesn’t say that anywhere? many of your comments on other stories come back to drugs, I’m guessing there’s a “druggy” some where close to you that has skewed your outlook,but we should probably stick to the facts. her parents were spying on her and calling her insane. I’ll read it again, but I think you’re jumping to conclusions. peace
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:40pm
  Bluehen: You don’t know how right you really are. Which points out an amusing fact about Liberals; they are only right by accident! LoL………… Like the perp who just can’t help him or herself by telling the truth while lying through his or her teeth to the police… So funny.
  
  The only thing you got wrong is that the government doesn’t do pretty much of anything except Fmuck everything it touches up while stealing our money and our freedoms. Keep trying. One day you’ll get it 100% right and then you’ll be one of us and you’ll burst into flames because vampires can’t abide the light of day… :)
  
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- BravePatriot
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:40pm
  I wish we can get one on Harry Reid and his false fiscal cliff chicanery. Keep him out of the senate and put a rational thinking law maker in-charge to get bills tabled, instead of languishing in Reids “magic underwear”..lol
  
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- zman173rd
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:51pm
  She’s 21. If here parents gave her money that’s their problem. If they were so pissed about her behaviour why did they continue to support it? They can give me money too. Then I’ll put a restraining order against them if they pry. If there was no contract attached to the “loan” then they should buzz off. If she was doing illegal drugs call the authorites but beyond that mind your own business. Now if she is running around the subways acting irrationally they may have a point. But I don’t think so. What’s that called? Living vicariously through thier child?
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:04pm
  Hey Bluehen, I just have to ask if the standards at UD have dropped so low that they no longer require the study or use of the English language for graduation? I understand that with all of the newly required diversity and other indoctrination courses they only have so many hours in a semester for classes, but please learn to use proper capitalization and grammar. If they wonder why I toss their alumni donation requests, it should be obvious.
  
  For those who don’t know, the Fighting Blue Hens are the mascot for the University of Delaware. He’s one of Joe Biden’s constituents.
  
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- cemerius
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:10pm
  It’s not like they alreadyy have full rain to bug ALL of our electronic devices already!! Restraining order from the Federal Government sounds like a very sound reassuring idea!
  
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- blarman
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:49pm
  It’s called the Constitution, and specifically VOTING. The 2nd Amendment comes in as a last-ditch effort.
  
  The problem is that there are too many people who want to vote themselves raises from your pocketbook, so #1 doesn’t work. I really hope it doesn’t devolve to #2, but…
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:10pm
  yep.. its called a one way plane ticket! I suggest everyone on this site get one!
  
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- airwingjim
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:51pm
  Amen
  
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- airwingjim
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:53pm
  I said (amen!)
  
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- SLOWBIDEN
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:23pm
  @mildot.. usually I agree with you but you are being obtuse. Their are plenty if unattractive actresses and actors. Also this girl is quite attractive. I don’t know if you are having a bad day or something but your comment was very ugly and you should be ashamed for having made it.
  
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- khvtex77
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:45pm
  yeah you sure can … you can vote them out… oh yeah that’s right you got your **** kicked in the election… Obama re-elected, house seats lost , and Dem senate gained sets… too bad for you most Americans are not Right Wing sheep like you
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:06pm
  As far as I’m concerned, she is a child and was living as their child (they paid all of her bills and took care of her), and therefore, she is their child and they have the right to ensure her safety and teach her in any way that they see fit. A parent / child relationship is peculiar in that it is a benevolent dictatorship, not a republic. If her parents wanted to keep tabs on her, fine. If she didn’t like it, she should have stopped taking their money, gotten a job, and paid for her own bills.
  
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- mato
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:57pm
  No. But we can damn sure fire them.
  
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- Zeus is THE Lord
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 2:23am
  Say, speaking of twisted mothers, did you hear that The Quitter from Wasilla and Palin Family Pimp for Media Dollars is now in her seventh incarnation since she betrayed the Alaskan people…as a fitness guru??? And these ********* nuts still think she may one day be Prezzydent…
  
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- sizzlinsexybeckster
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 4:50am
  “The parents knew about what they saw as their daughter’s problems because, they admit, they installed monitoring software on her laptop and cellphone, allowing them to see her every keystroke and phone number dialed or received. It was “like I was a dog with a collar on,” said the daughter, a dean’s list student every quarter.”
  
  Sounds just like the overbearing and overpowering government spying on us. We The People should also be able to get a restraining order, impeach the whole government and put a stop to this complete rudeness. I’m tired of sending out emails with an idiot always looking over my shoulder. Our tax dollars are being used to spy on us and to take away all our rights and to hand weapons over to other nations looking to destroy our country. The United States of American government should not be having so much fun all these decades destroying our country. It’s past time we get it back. Fire the government, hollywood, and media – send them all to Alcatraz to have their own personally private AGENDA 21 far away from us.
  
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- paultard
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 5:19am
  The parent’s actions sound a lot like the New world order monitoring we see every day.. Cameras everywhere, monitoring emails unwarranted, checkpoints, police military garb, TSA fondling your personal parts, body cavity searches for littering, restricting certain food. Should I go on?
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 5:56am
  this young woman is an adult. she is 21 and can do what she wants without her parents consent. they can also refuse to give her money or any other support. time to cut that cord folks.
  
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dadsrootbeer
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:28am
So she got her parents out from telling her what to do. Now how is she going to do the same with the progressive government she probably voted for. Hope she can find a job after graduation.

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- Ollie123
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:56am
  I just hope she realizes she can’t run back to mommie and daddie after she gets her degree and can’t find a job to support herself. Some of what the parents is a little overboard, but since the relationship is severed, don’t come crying home for help in the future. Your a big girl now.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:03am
  This should warn any company that she will sue them if some fellow worker passes gas in her presence. Give her an interview and tell her you still have others to interview and then notify her you hired someone more qualified.My sons have a construction company and had a guy come in that came from a votech that taught heavy equipment and he passed at the top of his class. My sons start new employees at $12.00 an hour. He told my son that he wouldn’t start out for less than $18.00 an hour and he would not get off of a backhoe to work a shovel as sometime they must. He wasn’t hired.
  
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- jcldwl
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:04am
  It is a family issue for them to work out and why do we even have to know about it? Another pointless story here so move along folks. Unless all of you are in favor of millions of people reading about your family life?
  
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- Marine25
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:12am
  @dadsrootbeer
  How do you presume who she voted for? Wait. Let’s see. Single female. College educated. Under 30 years old. Lives in Ohio. Yep, she’s likely a Democrat. Republicans lost all four of those demographics.
  
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- drattastic
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:15am
  Don’t worry about her employment after graduation because she is now an actress with a degree . Soon she will be in that land where dreams come true and all that money well spent on tuition will begin to payoff , you guessed it ,Hollywood Ca. . I see it all now young fresh faced “actress” starts her new gig waiting tables hoping to be discovered but after a few years of frustration a shady guy offers the struggling actress some work (she needs the money) doing a little soft core porn ,then come the drugs and the hard core porn ,next thing you know shes sold as a sex slave to some evil foreigner who wants to make a snuff flick . Such a sad story and a life cut short .I guess her parents were right, she should have listened.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:19am
  There is definitely something very wrong with parents who would SPY on their child in college, making good grades. I suspect the mother is the culprit in this case, but I hope they will devote their efforts to helping kids or doing something with their own lives – you cannot force kids to ‘love you’. Your first 5 years determines a huge block of how kids will respond and you can’t make it up afterwards by ‘hovering’. I feel sorry for this young person…the mental abuse is often much worse than the physical abuse. She’ll be able to find employment and take care of herself. Kudos for her being able to break this strangle-hold. No one should be allowed to SPY via electronic devices like this. THINK ABOUT IT.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:31am
  I won’t judge either party because we’re only getting half-a$$ed information. But I will say this, you want me to stop meddling? Stop taking my money. Quite frankly, when my kids stop taking mine, all I can do is hope I’ve done enough to help them make good decisions. But as long as they’re on MY DIME, I’m on their a$$.
  
  Kinda like government….
  
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- omgfolks
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:03pm
  Olie are you and idiot? This yooung woman by all account has had her privacy invaded, has been held to ridcule, and followed like a common criminal. These are shameful acts of some truly OVER THE TOP PARENTS. The parents need to seek some mental help, the actions they displayed were not of parenting but something much more sinister. I would venture that if the school thought enough of her to stand behind her and provide for her last year that they see what you are missing. Your thought process seems to be off center, I doubt very seriously that this woman would ever entertain moving back in with the Hiltler’s from Kansas
  
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- alinmatt
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:05pm
  Some of you ought to try reading a book called Boundaries, if you want to have a good relationships. These parents are way out of line and have destroyed their relationship with their daughter, not the other way around. If you are funding your child’s college education, then yes, you do have the right to expect certain things-primarily good grades and a degree that’s worth a crap. However, it does not grant you the right to spy on and enslave your adult child. As an adult, your child will do things you disagree with and make mistakes – just like you did. If you want them to grow and mature as a person, step back and let them take the wheel.
  
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- Balthazor
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:09pm
  ‘I doubt very seriously that this woman would ever entertain moving back in with the Hiltler’s from Kansas”
  
  Godwin’s Law strikes again!
  
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- Popp40
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:30pm
  I think this is just a stunt to get her name out there so when she goes on an audition they know who she is….just like when rappers are about to put out a new album….they do something to go to jail. Thus it brings attention to themselves. Same concept here.
  
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- stevew95
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:50pm
  Patty Henry, my employer monitors everything I do on my computer and work phone. The courts have said it is legal for them to do so. What isn’t mentioned in the article, was if the parents paid for her laptop, her phone. We know they paid for her college and room and board, at least until she filed her restraining order. Based on court cases, parents who pay for internet service, computers and phones at their homes, can monitor the users of such devices. While it sounds like the parents went a little far, if they paid for it, they can monitor it.
  
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- SLOWBIDEN
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:31pm
  Some of y’all are just cruel. You call yourselves conservative s but conservative s don’t go on attack s like you all are doing. If you want more people to be conservative in this country why don’t you try not being so hateful. Its truly disgusting. Have some shame
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:38pm
  Prior to condemning the parents … maybe ten years down the road will reveal if their concern was warranted regarding their daughter’s alleged destructive lifestyle … alleged mental illness.
  
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- Kalidor835
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:53pm
  This girl’s parents were way out of line with what they were doing. If they wanted to monitor her that badly they could have sent her to a local college. The idea that they felt it was OK to bug her phone and laptop as well as show up on campus whenever they felt like it says something is wrong with their own sanity. Obviously after hearing testimony from witnesses on both sides a judge agreed. It’s also telling that the school had to ban them from her performances.
  
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- Angel98315
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:24pm
  MARINE25 >> Actually statist democrats lost on all 4 accounts. Barry Soetoro stuffing the ballot box fails to count. Notice how Ohio and Pennsylvania had more votes than people who actually live in the state illegals included? Oh wait, the Lame Stream Media probably failed to inform you of that.
  
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- Thatsenough
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:11pm
  I want a restraining order for the government to stay away from my money….I’m tired of being taxed, preached to, demeaned and bullied.
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 12:53am
  She’s got nothing to worry about, Mom’s a push over if she needs help.
  
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- Seymour
  Posted on December 29, 2012 at 1:51pm
  Face it People, it was my kids and your kids that pushed Obama to another term. I’m so irritated having created a path to a better life for each than I or their Mother had getting started much like these parents, hence my Holiday conversation went much like this:
  
  Hey Kids, great to see you, welcome home from college and Merry Christmas!! Oh, you need money? Well, you did vote for Barack Obama so not only is he your new Pappy but all 3 of you will now have the to finance the final 2 years of your University educations including room and board. Each of your AMEX cards now has a $200 limit and will cancel January 2.
  
  Now for the good news, Mom and I received our refund from University and as you can see Mom is truly enjoying her new BMW and I’m really enjoying my new vintage MG. Now along with your new gift necessities’, i.e. underwear, shoes, each of you have been given a year’s subscription to The Daily Word, a copy of our Bill of Rights and our Constitution. I’m sure there are jobs like your Mother and I had to take to finance our own educations but I have no fear as we know you’re much smarter than us because you tell us so. So, Merry Christmas Kids! Enjoy……
  
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self-reliant man
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:14am
This is why self-reliancy is so important. So you can be free to make your own choices and so nobody can hold anything against you. My parents are proud of me and love me even when I stand up to them because they know I am capable and have never taken a dime from them after I moved out (over ten years ago). “leave and cleave”. That is the key. Cut the apron strings and let people learn. The hard way is often the most rewarding way.

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Mr.Crisp
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:09am
If you raise your children right they will be able to make the correct choices and will want to come back home and be with the family. Force is never the answer. Free will is.

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- Joe_Mann
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 7:13pm
  Yea, maybe in a perfect world where they have the freedom to choose. Not everyone has that freedom. We sent our daughter off to college. She was a friendly kid, getting all A’s and was happy to see her parents visit every 2 weeks. Then, suddenly she called and asked us not to come because she was busy with school work. Each time we called to ask to visit, she would say no. We drove out there only to find that she would not answer her door. We asked the Police for help but they would only knock on her door and get the same result. They said that since she was 22 she was an adult and could refuse company. Long story short, we discovered from one of her class mates that she had been abducted when a strange guy forced his way into her home. Over the course of months she was beaten, brainwashed and forced to accept her captor as her master and reject all of her family and friends. Police still will not help. This is a sad but true story. We have been unable to assist her. Moral of the story is to keep your kids close so you can protect them.
  
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Beachmastermax
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:46am
She is 21, not a child. She has the right to choose her associations. If she is not a drug addict, she should also consider sueing for character assasination. She could have gotten kicked out of school or lost a job opportunity because of her parents defamatory remarks.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:11am
  If they are paying her bills, providing any housing, or paying her tuition, IT IS their business. If not, not so much so, although concern would still be a natural reaction by a parent. It sounds like they’ve raised a snot nosed brat to me. They should obey the order cut her off of any financial help and support (if any) and let her lie in her own bed.
  
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- conservredneck
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:38am
  A snot nose brat? Hmmm, If I found tracking devices in my equipment, parents trying to seduce me by using others to get me mental assistance, I believe I would be having a problem too. Besides, its not just her saying it. The school is too. She is on the Honor Roll every year and has great re poor with all she comes in contact with. As far as drugs, I had a son go through that. Believe me, if you are on drugs, sooner or later you WILL crash. So, based on information provided, I have to support her, the judge, and the school that gave her a free ride for her last year.
  
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- Ruckus_Tom
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:09pm
  Last I heard people are now considered “children” until they’re 26.
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:53pm
  What if she is a drug addict?
  
  If Aubrey has been squadering her parents hard earned bucks on drugs rather than expenses associated with her education … should she not be held legally accountable?
  
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- Kalidor835
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 12:41am
  You people are making assumptions that the story doesn’t support. No where does it say that she was doing drugs and her grades are great or she wouldn’t have continually made the Dean’s List. This isn’t a story about an out of control young woman but her out of control overbearing parents. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to wise up. Even if her parents were footing the bill they were still acting very strangely. This to me sounds like the parents of an only child, stated in the story, who can’t let go.
  
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Anadara
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:41am
This how the west was settled; by young men and women, risking their lives within the untamed west, trying to get the heck away their parents.

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- aggiebrewer
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:18am
  And learning grammer…just sayin
  
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- slade37
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:21pm
  Did you mean “grammar?”
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:57pm
  Leave my Grammar out of this. She’s a sweet old lady. Blue **** and all.
  
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denkat56
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:38am
I thought that legal age was 18, not when college is over. Being a straight a student should make any parent proud. Wait until she’s a star she’ll pay you back, after that the parents can talk smack .

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- searcher619
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:22am
  Her parents need to be forced into psychiatric evaluation. They sound like they are mentally broken.
  
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- JediKnight
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:01am
  Not defending the parents, but they were paying for her school. Thankfully, even after they cut her off (which is the appropriate action to take if you think your child isn’t doing “the right thing”) the school gave her a scholarship.
  
  This is really less about being the legal age and much more about REALLY overbearing parents. I’m betting they don’t want her to be an actress, which is what it looks like she’s studying.
  
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grimmster
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:36am
And people wonder why there are psycos running around killing people.And some of the comments by you folks,really!? It doesnt matter who is paying for her education,it is no excuse for her parents behaviour,sheesh……..

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- sta
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:11am
  Well, my kids have a choice. If they want my cash, they live by my rules. That includes tracking software. If they don’t want the tracking software, I can spend my money elsewhere.
  
  It’s as simple as that.
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:35am
  @sta
  Its not that simple dear.She has no choice really.While she can get married join the service she still has to show her parents income for financial aid.The only way someone under 24 can prove independence from their parents for financial aid purposes is to either be married ,formerly married fully responsible for a dependents suppor or otherwise certified in a court as an adult.Neither her or her parents has much choice on that.
  Her parents if they even are her parents are looking to make her their gravy train.Its quite possible they want to use her to collect a check every month.There is no indication that she is suffering mental illness or addiction.This though is a favorite lie to try an illegaly obtain control custody over someone..Be it a greedy parent lover spouse organized crime ring or terrorists.Their are simply different twists used with different goals at hand.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:39am
  @sta: Strongly agree. I tell my kids they don’t have to do anything if they don’t want to. Or that they can do whatever suits them. However, there are consequences.
  
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- AlansTigg
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:08pm
  yes but are your children aware of the tracking software?…could be wrong but I got the impression she was not aware they were monitoring her laptop and cell phone. I have no problem with things like that as long as it is stated as part of the conditions of providing internet/phone/car etc. It’s the sneaky spying on your children that causes huge issues
  
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- alinmatt
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:20pm
  Tracking software, hahahaha. That’s funny. Works great for LITTLE kids. Parents that pull this crap with their adult children don’t have a clue. When you attempt to put a leash like that on your adult children they will outright rebel against what you’ve taught them and never tell you. Do your best to raise them right when their young, it’s too late when they’re of age.
  
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- Advection
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:27pm
  @STA, using secret tracking software on your child is one thing. Using it on your adult offspring is criminal.
  
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- athynz
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:58pm
  @STA – IF your college age kids are living with you then I could understand a curfew and a ban of inviting people over without permissions and introductions beforehand however tracking software is completely overboard. It also implies not only a lack of trust in your offspring but also a lack of faith in your parenting. If your children are not responsible adults that know right from wrong by the time they are college aged then the fault is due to your failure as a parent. Those parents went completely overboard and completely destroyed any chance of a relationship with their daughter due to their actions and the lack of trust.
  
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jungle J
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:34am
maybe they know something that we don’t…..maybe they don’t want her to turn into the average American women..slut.
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- Bloody Sam
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:40am
  The average American woman is a slut?
  Really?
  You need to get out more and start associating with better quality people.
  
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- Daisytoo
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:15pm
  I hope you realize that your comment indicates that you’re seriously crazy.
  
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- DontStopBelieving
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:26pm
  Jungle – wow. What cave did you fall out of?
  
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AlmostaCowboy
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:32am
Since the Democratic Socialists say she can stay on her parents’ insurance until she’s 26…….

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term limits for congress
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:31am
The real question – did she get her $3,000/month of contraceptives for free?

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Blazen420
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:27am
This really isn’t anyone elses business but the family. I could care less. That said, the correct way to handle this would be to tell the daughter what you expect or the tuition gets cut off….end of story.

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- seek.the.truth
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:46am
  That is exactly right! That is exactly what my children were told. Give them the rules and then back off! Reasonable boundaries without spying so they can become adults.
  
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- Greenwood
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:51am
  correct
  
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- termyt
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:20am
  They did cut her off. That’s a telling point of the story. The parents cut her off so the school gave her a full ride. Not many universities will do that unless there’s merit to her side of the story. They also hired security just to keep her parents out. The university has no motivation for doing either of those things. They both cost the school money.
  
  That says to me the parents are the issue, not the girl.
  
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- Dano.50
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:38pm
  Termyt,
  
  Cults do the same kind of thing when it comes to keeping family away.
  
  The truth is we don’t know enough. The parents could be overbearing nuts. The daughter could be a conniving little twerp.
  
  She is an aspiring actress, by far a liberal pursuit so, it’s not like she’s not surrounded by likewise thinking, all saying she’s doing nothing wrong.
  
  I don’t know why some people think there’s nothing wrong with spending other people’s money, but then, I’m not a liberal so…
  
  If it were my daughter, I’d be saying, “I’m supporting your education, not some guy you’re living with, and since I have no guarantees I’m not supporting him somehow, and you want to be treated as an adult, get a job like many of my generation did.”
  
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2dogs
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:22am
they should trust their daughter ,however that said who`s baying the bill !!!!!!!

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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:35am
  I’m not “baying” the bills…spell check?
  
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:21am
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Mom, Dad I just play a straight A, drug addicted whore in the school play……..

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- sta
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:14am
  Greenwood – spell-check works when a word is spelled wrong. It doesn’t always work on grammar. “Came” is spelled correctly but the typo makes it incorrect in the sentence.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:33am
  and you do it well
  
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mrunner
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:18am
Wow, her parents are like Bloomberg on steroids!!!

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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:40am
  ???WTF? Seriously? Bloomberg=Government, Parents=Creators of this girl. Not even close to the came. You would know the difference if you had children of your own!
  
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- Greenwood
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:56am
  WOJCIECH…………..”Not even close to the came.”
  
  Did you mean same? spell check………see we all make mistakes even you.
  
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- Leslie Anne
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:08am
  hahaha I had just finished doing a cut-n-paste to make the same snarky remark about Wojciech W.’s incorrect use of “came” instead of “same”. Wojciech W. is quick to correct others.
  
  KJV Luke 6:42 ~ 42 Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.
  
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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:21am
  NEVER Greenwood, NEVER LMAO, and spell check there wouldn’t catch it, should have proof read. thanx anyways
  
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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:00am
  @Leslie Anne get a life and throw the bible into thy own fire.;)
  
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- aggiebrewer
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:21am
  yea…burn the bible…..that always works out great….right?
  
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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 7:08pm
  @aggiebrewer … ??? what are you talking about? Not burn the bible, throw it in THY OWN FIRE. You are on “The Blaze” …
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:18am
The only people needing treatment for a mental illness are her nut job parents not Aubrey.Installing spyware on her computer and cellphone is a crime,the parents need to get a grip.

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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:34am
  not if they bought those tools for her …
  
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- OhioRifleman
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:02am
  @ Woj
  
  Actually, yes, if the devices were purchased and then gifted to her, installing spyware on the machines is felony eavesdropping, wiretapping, and hacking. Depending on what account information was intercepted, again if the devices were gifted to her or hers to begin with, then it could also constitute bank fraud, wire fraud, or international hacking.
  
  If the devices were considered to be the retained possession of the parents, and loaned to her, then there may be some room for the parents to escape the charges, but only to an extent. If, say, the devices were still considered the parents, and the daughter set up a bank account completely separate from the parents, and the parents used their spyware to intercept her login info and check her accounts, that is hacking and bank fraud (the latter, you are misrepresenting yourself in electronic form to a bank).
  
  Electronic privacy is a tricky minefield, all the more so when you are trying to be a control freak with someone else’s equipment.
  
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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:30am
  @OhioRifleman Really? Parents being cut off from checking up on their kids? I guess you have accepted those laws, did you accept the patriot act too? Do you think sending parents who found out that their girl is a typical American whore should go to jail? American Kids are some of THE DUMBEST in the world(grade avg.). I wish some of the kids here in NJ, ie Camden, would have parent(s) that cared as much, if not even less. My parents never had the need too, I never gave them a reason to doubt my character to call for such actions.
  
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- Ollie123
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:59am
  I wonder if mommy and daddy paid for her laptop, phone, credit card along with her $66,000 tutuin cost. Yet, they should have absoultely no say in how she uses or abuses their investment. Make her pay for her own way, all the way, then she has a case in my mind.
  
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- OhioRifleman
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:55am
  @ Woj
  
  I do not accept the Patriot Act. I do accept a parent’s right to check up on their kids, but not to the point of befouling cybercrimes acts to do so.
  
  That said, I do not accept the pretext you are giving that someone else has legal consent to electronically eavesdrop on equipment that cannot be confirmed to belong to them.
  
  –”Do you think sending parents who found out that their girl is a typical American whore should go to jail?”
  
  Depending on how they developed this information, yes. Privacy, eavesdropping, wiretapping, and stalking laws exist in this country for a reason. You do not crack someone else’s computer to determine such information, regardless of your intentions or supposed moral highground position. There is a law against such conduct, and for good reason. Parenting is one thing, social engineering is another, and espionage is not appropriate means.
  
  Again, read my first post. I deliberately said that the ownership of the device determines the legality of their actions, regardless of my opinion on the matter.
  
  The world of electronics is a very confusing one; I should know, I am a server operator and technician.
  
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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 7:25pm
  @OhioRifleman I admire your conviction. You are right, but I’m a dad myself. I would DO ANYTHING to protect my daughter, even from herself. The need to protect my little girl is immense. I would never try to change the law to accommodate that, this is not the Middle East where it’s ok to stone your family if they go against you. With that said, Laws have A LOT of gray areas for LE & Fed. agencies to do the same thing we are discussing. Restricting Laws is not the answer I think. I don’t know what irks me about this besides the obvious, but there’s more then that.
  
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- Kalidor835
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 12:55am
  I’m a father of three with my oldest daughter about to be a senior in H’s and there comes a point where you have to let them go. It’s just like when teaching them to ride a bike, if you don’t let go of it they’ll never learn to ride on their own. These parents couldn’t let go of the proverbial bike and now they have to suffer the consequences of their actions. If they’d have treated their daughter like the young adult they had hopefully raised her to be this would have been avoided.
  
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- Kalidor835
  Posted on December 30, 2012 at 12:59am
  That should say HS as in high school not H’s as in h owns it. I need to quit posting using my tablet as it’s spell checker is killing me.
  
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BlessedONE333
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:14am
oh lookie – yet another young girl who after going to college – rejects she parents.

I think we need more info on this. First off just because a judge and a school took her side means nothing. Alot of mental illnesses are fully accepted by the community at large!!

And the parents did go over board a little, but there is no details on why they were banned from the school performances, did they make noise or a scene? no details makes it hard to take sides.

I have lived near college towns, and I can tell you the kids are out of control, rapes occur regularly, bike theft on a weekly basis, roofie drugs are often used on girls just like her. it’s sad but when you try and warn the kids, they act like they are invincible and nothing bad will ever happen to them – naive.

I want to know what the parents found while watching her – I don’t care if she’s a straight “A” student as a singer/actor – big deal!! some of the worst crazy people in the world end up in hollywood so that is not a selling point at all!

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- seek.the.truth
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:27am
  The young lady is an adult and deserves to be treated as one. Don’t you think if there was a mental issue, the school would be aware by now. Seems like the parents suddenly came up with a mental issue in order to make a power play.
  
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- ONLY4UANDME
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:31am
  You hear directly out of the mouths of young people with kids…. “I’m stuck dealing with the other parent until the kids are 18. …or……….x more years until I am done paying child support etc. In our society people “think” they don’t need to be parented nor do they plant to parent past 18. That’s just the way it is.
  
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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:38am
  seek.the.truth?! How do you know what “the parents suddenly came up with”? Don’t be a tool, SEEK THE TRUTH.
  
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- seek.the.truth
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:53am
  Wojciech– I would have been happy to discuss that point, but I will not engage in conversation with someone so immature that they must call names. Have a wonderful day!
  
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- honor007
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:53am
  that is the same liberal college that produced Sarah Jessica Parker and Woody Harrellson. Damn straight her parents should be worried!
  
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- brigott
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:50am
  Seek – the young woman (not sure “lady” applies here) is legally an adult.
  
  That doesn’t actually make her one. Her behavior indicates otherwise.
  
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- seek.the.truth
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:31pm
  Brigott — yea, from some of the info available it seems she may not be a lady. Still believe the parents need to back off. She is an adult. Cut off financial help and back away.
  
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Pat Alexander
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:11am
She’s 21.

For God’s sake, cut the cord..

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- sta
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:18am
  Is the cord is attached to the parent’s checkbook? Then by all means, cut it.
  However, if she is looking for the cash, there are always strings attached.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:42am
  You are both correct! However at 21, and as smart as she appears to be academically, she should have figured a way around her overbearing parents before it came to this point! Not much common sense if you ask me! And not that she would have to be dishonest concerning her activities, but maybe just a little sneaky! If there is someone here that didn’t hide something from your parents when you were young, then you didn’t have any fun!!!!!
  
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vaman
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:07am
If the parents are really that nuts, good for her! Honor thy mother and father does not always apply.

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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:28am
  WOW, honoring thy mother and father not always apply? I GUESS THE OTHER 9 NEED NOT ALWAYS APPLY? Thou shalt not commit murder, but in your case it might not apply … if you think about the little info that we get with this report, lets look at what we know. The parents who love their daughter, know their daughter and pay for her tuition … have installed spyware to monitor their daughter. So far so good, they have the details of the texts and emails and all that, we don’t. She’s a 20 something KID, who is backed and protected by a UNIVERSITY! So far I’m rooting for her parents. If parents want to keep tabs on their children THEY ARE ENTITLED TO DO SO, don’t expect a Christmas gift though, for her to go to court over this … seems like she has MENTAL ISSUES. Big Gov. must step in and protect the BRILLIANT DAUGHTER from the STUPID PARENTS who only have her best interests in mind(*assumption based on being a parent and having BOTH). “Oh Ye without sin cast the first stone!” or something like that. And I have met collage girls when I was a young Marine in Hawaii. Never met a saintly one. And her claiming she doesn’t do drugs in collage??? Get real, remember the spy ware? They know something we don’t.
  
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  Who gives a damn what some tart does? We have more pressing issues at hand hahaha.
  
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- TMOverbeck
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:02am
  To me, “honoring mother & father” never meant blindly following all of their orders, especially after reaching adulthood… but it still meant giving them proper respect. And to me, yes, they ARE quite overbearing. If Aubrey’s making excellent grades, that should be all that matters and they should **** out of everything else.
  
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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:42am
  @TMOverbeck I can understand, but new info is coming out by ppl who apparently know this girl to be a whore that has sex for money to buy drugs … and straight A’s in ACTING, in an American University? Actors now are Freagin retarded …
  
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skippy6
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:06am
Yes overbearing!!! But so is Obama, he can order you to be searched without a warrant..NDAA/homeland security/patriot act….Is this the old USSR????

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- gyro
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:36am
  wait you cant compare obama to this atractive white girl
  the left will jump all over you
  
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thegoldman
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:04am
Even a dog has more freedom…

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Murkman
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:04am
Umm, she’s you kid but you don’t own her.

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- Wojciech W.
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:32am
  Murkman do you have a problem in grammar? Proof read your short sentence before posting. Sad
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:54am
  Hey Woji wanker- um lots of peeps utilize smart ass phones and could give a rip about your need to correct. Was it an over bearing effeminate father that caused this?
  
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gunslingerpatriot
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:04am
The parents went way to far when they informed the dean of her program of her daughter’s “mental health” issues and that they may have to take her into treatment. Unless the daughter is failing her classes, missing school or her dormmates are reporting her to the Resident Assistant for mental health issues, then the parents need to but out of their daughter’s life.

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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 5:50pm
  Something akin to Adam Lanza’s mother.
  
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PeppermintCrush
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:02am
Are the parents Islamic? (I’m seriously asking, not being sarcastic).

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:44am
  Highly doubtful, at least not devout muslims, or they would probably have an uncle or other male relative following her around everywhere she went in public and their would be no need for the surveillance.
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:54pm
  Edit; there
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:14pm
  You don’t have to edit yourself. We have WOJ for that. He’s probably running late.
  
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Psychosis
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:59am
too much info missing

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- Wolf
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:26am
  Oh, I dunno about that: the daughter is 21; the parents are paying her tuition; they’ve admitted to spyware on her electronics; she’s getting good grades; she wants to go to college.
  
  There’s enough info here to know if the girl wants an education, she should be paying for it herself and the parents should not. Since she is 21, she’s an adult- legally though not for Obamacare purposes- and has her own life to live sans parents.
  
  This, IMO, is another case of parents thinking their adult kids are property rather than individuals.
  
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- VanGrungy
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:27am
  http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20121225/NEWS0107/312230085/Judge-orders-parents-away-from-daughter?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
  
  Check the comments on this. There is ongoing harassment and libel/slander
  
  Molly Santucci · Top Commenter · Intern at American Civil Liberties Union
  My brother worked on the set of CCM’s In to the Woods, Evita, and Chess where the two hooked up/had sex all the time. He gave her drugs, she paid him with sex when her money ran out.
  
  Molly Santucci · Top Commenter · Intern at American Civil Liberties Union
  I personally know this girl and she really is a whore. She used to buy drugs from my brother till she ran out of money. She offered him sex and he did that a few times until she just owed him way too much and he said she had some kind of weird cold sore looking things all around her vag. Now she tried to hook with with random guys and get them to buy her drugs.
  
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- ozchambers
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:52am
  @VANGRUNDY: Gotta love how Molly Santucci, the intern at ACLU is so respectful of the subject’s rights as she dishes 3rd person heresay onto the internet. Not to mention exposing her own brother as a drug dealer in the process.
  
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- checkingbothsides
  Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:47pm
  Yeah, because comments on message boards are tantamount to sacred truth. :P
  
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