Comment by low_tech_love

There is always a limit for everything. If they had four kids, then they also had to think about the well-being of the other three. Sure there are bad parents throwing their kids out without special reason, but it’s a philosophical choice here: you have to choose to give the parents the benefit of the doubt, and trust that they tried as hard as they could. At 17 years old he was not a child anymore, not an adult either, but he certainly could have seen that he was destroying his whole family. Should a parent let one teenager destroy the lives of the other three? There are always limits. The limit can be very very far off, but it exists. Maybe he was bringing criminals into their home? Maybe he was stashing drugs inside and the police was knocking on their door? Maybe he was violent against the other members of the family and the parents couldn’t stop it in any way? Maybe he was threatening to hurt the others? Stealing from the others? Who knows. Parents are humans too, I suspect you don’t have kids, but being a parent turns you into an almost-super human but still human.