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What we see here is that @Christine 's mother had a lot of success in making her daughter leave her home and never come back. This may happen to other parents, too. When the girls have moved out and are free, they will never come back even when they are in trouble. They will do everything to avoid the option to come back and live with there parents, even if they have to do stupid things instead.
This is one reason, why parents schould never be keyholders of their children, especially when the belt wasn't their childrens idea.