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Is his girlfriend's family trying to set him up?

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I have been with my wife for ten years and watched her 4 y/o son grow to be a young man. Now he is almost 15 y/o and popular with the ladies. He has a girlfriend and has been going cuckoo like most young men that age on a hormone roller coaster(and some older farts too LOL). Now my wife and much of her family are afraid he might have sex with this girl and her parents will start demanding money. They have seen our house and know we are not poor so $$$$ may be flashing in their eyes.
Her mother seems to encourage them being alone often which is not normal in my opinion of something parents of a 14 y/o girl do. The girl is in my step son's class at school and last week her grandmother came to the classroom and took a photo of him.

My wife says if the girl has sex with her son her mother may get the police involved and the extortion begins. We have told our son to keep it in his pants but no teenage boy could resit that opportunity. Being that Thai men seldom support step children my wife could make it clear to the girls mother that I will not contribute anything financially and the police could not force me too as I am not the boys father.

Anyone have experience in this situation or thoughts on the matter. My wife and I do have a 5 y/o son together so this situation could turn ugly in 10 years when he grows up.

http://teakdoor.com/living-in-thailand-forum/87298-his-girlfriends-family-trying-set-him.html

private car owners are not permitted to rent out their vehicles unless they do so under the Private Car Rental Scheme introduced by the LTA.

Under the scheme, private cars can be rented on weekends from Friday 7pm to the following Monday 7am. But owners have to ensure adequate insurance coverage for the period of rental.

McCandless’s final journal entry, “Happiness only real when shared.”

Xing said he began working at a young age to help his mother pay for college. He served in the Singapore National Defense Force and became a sergeant

tekan thru psychological imprisonment and emotional torture

"By the fruit it bears, you will know the tree." - Jesus.

The world had seen many protests and deaths and violence and US kept quiet..... Sudan Somalia Nepal & even Myanmar when monks marched.

Why they will appear to be intervening is actually a very simple logic. They will pretend to be doing it when they found out that power change already become inevitable - e.g. during Suharto's fall. They do it for several purposes:

1. To create false impression that the USA was powerful that under their intervention 3rd world regimes changed hands.

2. They hurry in to buy some friendship with the new regime by doing some redundant assistance.

3. The US need to stay on the GOOD side of the books of new 3rd world powers.

4. When there are several possible alternative powers that could replace a falling regime, the USA will then try to see if they can help the one faction that is most friendly with Washington to gain power. But they will do that if the cost is not too high to Washington.

When change is into the hands of those hostile against USA, they will wash hands and run ASAP. USA is a lame bullshit, they will not want lose their lives and limbs and look for only very cheapo wins.....doesn't anybody?

After carefully examining Jesus’ life and words, former Cambridge professor and skeptic, C. S. Lewis, came to a startling conclusion about him that altered the course of his life. So who is the real Jesus? Many will answer that Jesus was a great moral teacher. As we take a deeper look at the world’s most controversial person, we begin by asking: could Jesus have been merely a great moral teacher?

At least you know they didn't use too much preservatives. Eg. humble bakery bread grows mouldy after a couple of days (ie. little preservatives). Gardenia bread grows mouldy after a week (ie. more preservatives). Sunshine bread never grows mouldy (ie. lots of preservatives).

Structural unemployment means those who lost their jobs are not likely to be hired again to do their previous jobs. Their previous jobs have gone away to other countries or been made obsolete by technology or been replaced by more productive labor.

The only solution these jobless people have is to go for re-training and diversify into other industries. This is something they need to help themselves

This whole drama is to play with people's hearts...they will make you want it so badly and in the end break your hearts with promises and change. As is always happens with humanity...its going to end with a heartbreak when the new leader promises many things and give nothing...Humanity has been deceived for too long...Don't pin your hope, instead have a beer...

Most doctors are only in the profession for the money these days. Doctors have gone from being a noble profession to not much better then real estate agents.

It seems interior design contractors these days have more than enough work and income, so much in fact that they can pick and choose whom they decide to work for based on the size of the project.

I have become completely disillusioned by some whom I tried to engage for some work at my new apartment, and three others I asked to provide some services and furniture at my place of work.

For the home project, I contacted three contractors for an audio-visual console and shelving job at home and did not receive one response, despite sending drawings, measurements and budget.

I wrote to them complaining about the lack of customer service and arrogance that smacks of "your job not worth it, lah". Are they doing so well that at around $3,000 to $4,000, the console job was not worth their time or effort? Well, they missed out on the chance to do a total upgrade of two bathrooms and a kitchen, had the console job been done well.

Six weeks ago, I tried a well-known local interior designer. The website auto-responded within 15 minutes, advising that one of their consultants would contact me. I am still waiting.

For my office we needed some desks, tables and chairs for a small boardroom and two offices. We contacted three providers, one promised to come back the following day for "more measurements" but we never heard from him again. The other two were keen, but had quotes for the same work that varied by almost 100 per cent.

Is the industry so flush with business that smaller projects are just not worth it? This customer will certainly not be recommending four particular local businesses to friends and colleagues in the future.

“The main idea is to use different objects to focus one’s attention, and it could be a focus on sensations of breathing, or emotions or thoughts, or observing any type of body sensations,” she said. “But it’s about bringing the mind back to the here and now, as opposed to letting the mind drift.”
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/how-meditation-may-change-the-brain/?src=me&ref=general