It's possible the parents are partly to blame. I can't tell from reading the article. Maybe they never taught her to that wealth comes from work. That sounds simple to us, but my understanding of this at age 18 was sketchy. My parents are great, but maybe they could have done more to teach me to work. I think they rightly wanted me to have an affluent childhood they didn't have, but a side effect of this noble intention was I didn't learn to go out and find opportunities to serve people and bust my bottom to do it until almost 30 years old. I never would have sued my parents, but I wrongly though just as parents should abandon an infant with no caregiver, parents should subsidize the lifestyles of even young adult children. I categorically reject my view from 20 years ago!

Instead of giving her grief, people close to her should show her how much better it is to go out and find a problem and solve it. Say she wants to be a journalist. Get any crap job at a media outlet, work your tail off, and see if the employer is willing to pay for one or two classes in journalism. It will take longer to finish, but you come out with real-world experience. She may have to try five or ten such ideas before finding one that works, But she'd come away much much smarter, knowing things that work, don't work, and which things she enjoys and which thing leave her feeling like she did something unfair or immoral. She can't get locked into one path.

It's easy to say all this, and hard to tell it to an 18 y/o like me 20 years ago.

Maybe her parents are treating her like a child, and she has a libertarian impulse to live her own life, but is just on a track going 180 degrees the wrong direction.

So basically moving back home was just a ploy to pivot for money for a guardian.
The girl is a sociopath. I’ve seen girls like her up close before. They should have never let her back home. It was obvious to me by watching the way the parents broke down in court and the way the girl just sat there with no real emotion at all, she is capable of telling anybody anything to get her way. As long as her parents cater to her they will continue to jeopardize their own well-being.The parents are already emotional wrecks. Cut that girl loose before it is too late. She is trying this case in the court of public opinion, and everyone is saying: “Aw, she should be home with her parents.”

I’ve seen nuts like her operate. Taking her back home was worse thing they could have done. She’s got her friend’s dad wrapped around her little finger playing lawyer. What if she fakes her dad hitting her or her mother doing drugs or any number of BS stories she could tell a cop.As a social path she’ll wrap the cops around her finger too. She’s dangerous to have in the house. It’s time for her parents to start being honest with themselves about what a lil monster she is and start concerning themselves with protecting themselves from her.