> They started canvassing the neighborhood, driving her usual route home, checking to see if any neighbors had seen her. That's exactly what would have happene

> They started canvassing the neighborhood, driving her usual route home, checking to see if any neighbors had seen her. That's exactly what would have happened to me, before the age of phones. Unreasonableness of parents has nothing do to with phones. If anything, having a phone would have helped me stave off my parents and afforded me more freedom (not that it makes their behavior fine, but practically I would have probably been better off).