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PARENTING: Boy-crazy teen needs her father or surrogate

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Q: My 13-year-old daughter seems obsessed with boys, any boy. She will talk to a boy on the phone one time and then tell me that he’s her new boyfriend. We’ve had conversations about getting to know boys as simply friends, selfrespect, boundary-setting with boys, and so on, but my words seem to be falling on deaf ears. Her father and I are divorced and he is rarely a part of her life. What can I do to help her?


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This article was published November 4, 2009 at 4:01 a.m.

Family, Pages 35 on 11/04/2009

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