Relationships - parents approved?

We were discussing about personal space at your parents house. How do they feel about you bringing a boy or girl home? Are they ok with it? Do they start popping you a billion questions about him or her and if you are going out with them? Do they give the whole health education 101? Parents do get overprotective of their children and go through all these questions to make sure they’re not going to do anything stupid later.

A friend of mine was more or less hinted about not allowing her to be in a relationship while in college. Hearing about how her cousin that was going out with a guy two years older than her while she was still a junior in high school and her boyfriend was a freshman in college did not sit well with her parents. She was focusing less on her studies and junior year is the most critical year that colleges look at and she was literally failing all her classes. Even when it carried into her senior year, she was still doing poorly and her parents weren’t even sure if she could make it into 4 year college/university or community college. Her cousin’s parents were discussing this matter with her own parents and they said that she shouldn’t have gone out with this guy at all and it was only after college that she should start a relationship because her studies are no longer important (for now). It was then that she realized that her own parents weren’t approving of bringing home a boy she met during school and want her to focus on her studies instead if she starts going out with him.

In some ways it is understandable why they would say it as if she keeps on studying and doing well then she can get into job/graduate school she wants. But at the same time, they’re being a bit protective and don’t want their only child to leave the nest. It won’t be that easy to meet a boy after leaving school as she made quite a bit of male friends during her years in school. The only thing that her parents are cool about is not going through how to use condoms and lecture on sex. They assumed that there’s enough information that she sees on the TV, Internet, and in school that they can save their embarrassment of going through “the talk”.