Running away from home.

When we were teenagers, most of us might have thought about this idea due to several reasons and some of these reasons might be quite funny. It's very common that at the age of seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, teenagers begin to have divergent thinking and ideas from their parents.

At this age, young people tend to rapidly break free from parental influence and fall quickly to societal and peer pressures.

Once they are outside, a teenager would seem that they can't have enough of all the fun going on around them . But as soon as he or she steps into their parents house, they'd feel as if a vast smoke of boredom would choke them before they'd have another opportunity of going out again.

In some situations a teenager might unconsciously or deliberately vent out his or her frustrations on a younger sibling by snapping or screaming at to hem at the slightest mistake. A shocked and upset sibling might eventually report to mom or dad the bad treatment he had received.

Mom and dad would definitely be dissapointed and might also use some harsh words in rebuking the older teenager. A teenage might react by grumbling bitterly, walking away and in some cases bursting into tears, to the amazement of his/her family. This would lead to such teenagers becoming more frustrated and even depressed as the day goes by.

Ultimately, a teenager might become tired of everyone at home and start viewing their parents house thesame way you'd look at a prison. This creates a burning desire for the freedom to explore and experiment as much as they could without mom or dad monitoring thier every move.

Often, If a male child ddissapear,it wouldn't generate a lot of controversy as much as when a female child runs away even though when both are wild in manners. This is because it's generally believed that boys could survive and look after themselves better than girls if left alone.

I have heard about parents who deliberately chased out thier teenage sons out of the house. Recently, a man from the other street chased his eighteen years old son out of his house because he caught him smoking in his room (Lol).

From time to time, fathers usually get into hot quarrels with sons especially when they start deviating from the path they had been brought up. A son might come home late at night and meet the gates already locked and his dad is already fast asleep. His father must have already warned him severally against keeping late nights but he never changed. He might definitely spend the rest of the night outside if mother doesn't plead on his behalf.

But when it comes to a teenage daughter, the rules are quite different. A father would definitely be worried sick if his daughter had not yet returned home. The situation becomes worse when he finally realises that his daughter wouldn't be coming home at all. Due to a rebellious nature or an heated argument with her mom or dad, it wouldn't be difficult to guess that she had runaway and had not kidnapped, neither had she gotten into any form of danger.

In such a scenario, a parent might be ashamed to announce to the neighbors that their daughter was missing especially when the neighbors are already aware that their daughter was the wild type. They'd already concluded that she had eloped with a boyfriend. Infact this is how it happens most of the time. Unless ofcourse if it was a girl of ten to fifteen years who doesn't know about such things, then everyone would be seriously worried .

Even the police wouldn't take such cases about missing teenage girls seriously if they had carried out an investigation and find out that that the missing girl was very free with boys.

The police would later tell her worried parents to ask thier daughter's friends about her whereabouts. No need to mention that these were the kind of friends that have been leading her down a very different path for a long time and were also responsible for the general change in her behavior.

One of them might definitely have an idea of where she is at the moment and would be able to guess correctly the address of her boyfriend/manfriend or any other place that they could be found.

Maybe none of the friends might know her whereabouts but cases of missing teenage girls are mostly temporary as they would definitely return home later. The police have handled lots of cases like this and they'd try thier best to convince her parents that their daughter was safe wherever she was.

The young lady might decide to come back home after some days or at most, after a week. She would always come back home when she start becoming a bore to the man she eloped with or when he had assaulted her.

After she had returned home, if the rumors going around initially were confirmed to be true, her parents would be too embarrassed to inform the neighbors or even the police that their daughter had been found. Lol.

But when she doesn't still return home after two weeks, it then becomes a very serious matter. There might now be other explanations for her continual absence. Immediately, the police would swing into full action and do their best to look for her, in addition to the support of the whole community.

Everyone in the neighborhood would now be praying for her safe return especially when that society have some criminal elements like ritualists, kidnappers etc.

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