For whatever it's worth, I think it's normal to still be emotionally invested in the mistakes of your adult offspring enough to cry when they do something stupid. But it's not normal to try to fix everything that they break. The OP's daughter owns this one, and that's that. The mom shouldn't seek to do any research or do anything at all.
As far as the housing stuff, I think it's perfectly fine and actually desirable to have the standards for in-house behavior be more conservative than those of college kids generally.
I don't think any of us [ I mean collectively when we are associated with our groups] are striving merely for behavior on the loose end of normal or typical. Shacking even when you have a [sharing the same room] roommate is pretty common, I think, but it's common in more than one sense of the word.
Last edited by UGAalum94; 03-25-2009 at 08:47 PM.
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