Posted by Pam Adams on September 13, 2009 at 04:20:56 user PamAdams.
In Reply to: Jessica Watson (Was:The boundaries of parental responsibility) posted by Allan_Lang on September 12, 2009 at 23:18:33:
From the Los Angeles Times, Sept. 6
SAILING
Teen's mother is against solo trip
The mother of a 13-year-old girl whose hopes of becoming the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo were put on hold by a Dutch court says she opposes the voyage.
Babs Muller was quoted in the Volkskrant daily as saying her daughter, Laura Dekker, has the technical capability to make the trip, but the girl is not yet mature enough to deal with the psychological challenges of two years of being on her own.
"If it were up to me, Laura wouldn't go," Muller told the paper. "She can sail like the devil, that's not the problem," she said. But Laura "is not yet grown up."