Hey Peeps! I watched a TV drama, it got me thinking and I decided to write about it. The story follows a family torn apart by a young daughter who having just begun at university, becomes pregnant, marries the guy and stopped studying. The guy in question had no known family member - they were not present at the wedding, he was unfriendly to this in laws and snapped at his wife when she asked questions about his parents. Her father became concerned or should I say could not contain his obsessive love for his daughter and and after some time hired a Private Investigator to dig into his son-in law's past and let's just say, a lot of dirt was dug up. He also discovered that his son-in law physically and verbally abuses his daughter on a regular basis. This was however well disguised by the daughter's refusal to visit her family and when she finally did, she covered her face in heavy make up and pretended to be in a happy marriage. The story took an unexpected turn when the father again, hired a someone to give his son in law 'a good beating'.
This story got me thinking, "At what point does parental involvement become an unnecessary intrusion?". For any loving parent, I believe the first instinct will be to protect your son or daughter against any harm but then you realise that when children get to a certain age they need to be allowed to make their own mistakes and live their own lives. Personally, I believe hiring someone to beat up your son in law is a step too far in protecting one's daughter but should the father have stayed back and done nothing knowing his pregnant daughter is being abused by her husband? Where does one draw the line?
