European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bad company has parents worried dear Ann Landers How should parents handle their teen age children a attachment to Quot undesirable friends in a not talking about someone to has a haircut we done to like. Lam talking about an 18-year-old who a been in trouble at Home at school and with the police. The boy is definitely involved with drugs. We know this for a fact. Although a a Joey disappears for several Days at a time he keeps coming Back and popping up in our 16-year-old daughters life. We have told a a Polly that she is not to see him but she says they Are in love and we can to keep them apart. She 11 keeps comparing their Romance with Romeo and Juliet s. The More we try to keep our daughter away from this boy the More she insists on seeing him and the More de Vious she becomes. What is the Best Way to handle this heartsick Mother in Indiana dear Mother you cannot lock Polly in the basement nor can you police a 16-year-old every hour of the Day and night. My advice is to try family counselling. She needs to hear a voice other than that of her parents. If counselling does no to work she might have to take her lumps and suffer the consequences of her rebellious behaviour. Experience can be a rough teacher but sometimes its the Only Way out of control teen agers will get the message. Ann Landers bite the Bullet and Good Luck. You arc going to need it. Dear Ann Landers i think in a being lied to and need to know How to Check something out ,. I married a a Rex when i had known him Only a few weeks. I m ashamed to admit it but 1 met him in a bar he told me he bad been a Marine in Vietnam in the late �?T70s and was assigned to a company whose Job it was to get pos out. Rex drinks a lot and when he a intoxicated he becomes mean and abusive. He screams at me and says i will never understand Why he drinks so much until in be seen people killed and babies mutilated. He goes on and on and wont let up. A at first 1 thought this was Post traumatic stress but recently he a been mixing up dates and the sequence of events in his stories. Now in a beginning to suspect that Rex was never in the military. If his most recent dates arc Correct he would have been 14 pc Arnold when he served. I have to know the truth Ann. Is there a Way 1 can find out if this Guy was Ever a Marine. Jus Mazie dear Mazie you can get the information you seek by sending Rex a full name and social Security number to records Branch my cd Quantico a. 22134. There May be a Small fee if the research is extensive under $8. Letters to Ann Landers should be addressed to her at . Boa 11562, Chicago Iii. 60611-0562. C creators Syndicate. Married 40 years and he s still roving dear Abby my husband and i have been married for nearly 40 years. We Are the same age 68, and we have grandchildren who think a a Popsie Hung the Moon. He has been very Good to me a except for the times he a been involved with other women. Last year 1 saw him kissing our next door neighbor who is a widow nearly our age. My husband told me he was just giving her a birthday kiss. This was october and her birthday is in july i suspected there was something Between them when he went to her House to borrow something from her late husbands tool Chest and came out zipping up his pants. I had just gotten Over forgiving him for getting involved with a 30-year-old woman he met in a shop at the mall when he was a a a a a freeze Over helped him he is a 40-year habit. We were childhood sweethearts. A old faithful dear old faithful As Hamlet said sometimes a tis better to Bear those dear Abby ills we have than to Fly to others we know not of. Dear Abby my i am 16 years old and four months pregnant Boyfriend and i have gotten along Fine until this past week i am totally against abortion and i done to think i could live with the thought that someone else was raising my child. My father and i done to talk anymore and he hates the idea that i am his daughter and pregnant. I talk to a lot of people at school and my friends help a lot too. I hate not having the support of my father. Is there any advice that you can give me desperate and scared in Hamilton Ohio dear desperate and scared your father is disappointed and probably angry that you and your Boyfriend did not act More responsibly in preventing the pregnancy. And because Many Young women Cut Short their educations to raise these babies As single mothers it is Likely that he feels his dreams for your of Titre have come to nothing. You do need to talk to your father and explain to him that his support is crucial during this difficult time. 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