Listening to This American Life is pretty much my idea of a personal hell. The way he talks makes me anxious. It’s the weirdest thing.

The coffee is not 100% Arabica. Robusto, while commonly used up until the 90s, is a cheaper filler used in some coffee preparations, including Nespresso’s pods. To be fair, some people do not mind the taste of Robusto beans, but YMMV.

The coffee is not 100% Arabica. Robusto, while commonly used up until the 90s, is a cheaper filler used in some…

Yeah, this uses little space-ship shaped pods. And the coffee available is terrible.

Yeah, this uses little space-ship shaped pods. And the coffee available is terrible.

Yeah, their pods are not 100% Arabica. Automatically a lesser coffee. I find them to be virtually undrinkable.

Yeah, their pods are not 100% Arabica. Automatically a lesser coffee. I find them to be virtually undrinkable.

“Decent” is incredibly subjective. ;)

“Decent” is incredibly subjective. ;)

Please tell me the “sit and play” in the picture is for the dog. I need a dog playing with a “sit and play” video.

I think “tripping” may be part of the equation here.

As I read it, it sounded like the intense monitoring occurred in her 20s, when they realized she was lying about university. The other things, like picking her up early from sleepovers, just sounds like normal strict parenting.

Hey, I often like to read things and form an opinion based on the facts present and not on conjecture.

Key element here, they were abused. As written, this young lady was not abused. Done.

Jesus, you are persistent in misreading things. 1) What is written up there does not constitute abuse. 2) If she was being physically or psychologically abused, I would respond very differently. 3) Given the absence of evidence of abuse from the article, she should have moved her adult self out if she felt the demands…

This is right to privacy from the government, but hey, you’ve proven you like to blow things up out of proportion.

Wake me up when we have any indication that she was being physically abused or subjected to psychological abuse. As I said before, given the facts we have now, no reasonable judge or therapist would call this abuse.

Yeah, it’s called moving out and getting your own place. She was not a prisoner. There is no such thing as a “right to privacy”. It’s a good idea, and can be incredibly beneficial in the development of a young adult’s psyche, but it is not a right.

You know, the psychotherapist whose office is right down the hall from mine has a sign that says something to the effect of: “Parents getting you down? Move out, get your own place, and never do chores again!”

I’m so sorry, I will let the certified psychotherapists take this one. Apparently any time a parent does something that is inconvenient, it needs to be called abuse these days. Shoot, I guess my parents taking away my access to my phone and internet when my grades slipped was abuse. I guess my parents taking away my…

I am not excusing her parents behavior, however painting her as a victim of abuse given the information here is indefensible and ALSO arm-chair quarterbacking.

Were there locks on the door? It just says they monitored her odometer. If they paid for her car, and paid for her telephone and computer, then they have the right to restrict usage of both. If she had actually be locked up, I would be in agreement, but based on the facts as presented, it sounds more like she was…

I disagree that the actions mentioned in this story rise to the level of abuse. Strict parenting? Yeah. But calling this abuse is a bit of a stretch to me.

I do not understand the comments about the parents being unreasonably strict. The actions mentioned as occurring during high school are pretty normal where I grew up, and we also have to consider that those actions are being relayed by a friend years after the fact.