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Do parents have a right in telling whom their kids can date - race wise or other?

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/11/29/sheriff-man-beat-teen-daughter-in-keys-after-argument-over-her-dating-black-males/

Sheriff: Man beat teen daughter in Keys after argument over her ‘dating Black males’

Deputies arrested a man at a Florida Keys resort on an aggravated child abuse charge after they said a verbal argument over his 15-year-old daughter’s dating preferences escalated Tuesday night.

According to jail records, William Douglas Burks, 50, of Carleton, Michigan, was arrested just before midnight at the Lime Tree Bay Resort, located at 68500 Overseas Highway in Layton.

A Monroe County Sheriff’s Office arrest report states that Burks was having dinner with his wife, his daughter and his daughter’s friend when an argument broke out with his daughter “over her boyfriend, who is Black.”

The girl told deputies that “her dad is all against her dating Black males and he tends to be racist,” investigators wrote.

Deputies said the girl threw a soda at him because she was “tired of him talking down at her.”

Burks’ wife corroborated the story, adding that she and the girls left the restaurant afterward to go back to their room while Burks stayed to drink at the bar.

She told authorities that he showed up at the room about an hour later and rekindled the argument, eventually throwing his keys at his daughter, causing her to throw her cellphone back at him.

Do parents have a right in telling whom their kids can date - race wise or other?
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