Our 13-year-old Daughter Is Making Out With Her Boyfriend In Our Basement Right Now

And here’s why we are okay with it.

Janey Doe
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR
7 min readDec 31, 2022

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Photo by Savannah Dematteo

“Don’t you think your daughter is too young to have a boyfriend?” My two friends and I were out to dinner when one of them asked me this. The other nodded in condemnatory agreement.

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Janey Doe
ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR

Social Worker fascinated by humans, hypocrisy, and how all shitshows lead to self-discovery.