DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are separated. During the holidays, he had our 17-year-old son with him, and they went out of town for the weekend with a 15-year-old girl.
Abby, the girl's mother had never met either of us until my husband picked up her daughter and chatted with the woman for a few minutes.
I am appalled! What kind of mother would allow her teenage daughter to go away for the weekend with a boy and his father for three nights? -- READER IN PORTLAND, ORE.
DEAR READER: A mother who needs her head examined. You have described a recipe for disaster.