With all this protestation, you'd think I was actually referring to you - but I wasn't. If the girl in the article is inviting teenage guys to sneak into her room for whatever reason. In the dead of night and continues to think this is acceptable in the face of her upbringing and then lies about knowing this guy she's let sneak into her room in the dead of night when confronted directly about it by her father who is armed, something in her upbringing has gone drastically awry along the way, whether it be parenting in general, or discipline, or rebelliousness - whatever the reason - the train has gone off the rails. I think that's a fair assessment. Yes, all children are different. Those differences don't automatically translate into differing behaviors except in the absence of standard, rigid discipline and rules and structure. To each his own, but now this father is paying the price for protecting his daughter who apparently doesn't have the good common sense God gave to turnips.
Your assessment is neither fair nor accurate, and you're certainly not taking into account the differences between children. Know how I know you've never had to raise a child with diminished cognitive abilities? Those children don't necessarily "have the common sense God gave to turnips", as you so eloquently put it
Some kids are more prone to making poor decisions than others, regardless of their upbringing. Maybe those saying otherwise could see that if they weren't so far up on their high horses.