Parents who live in the US (sorry, fuagf, low blow) KNOW more than YOU know about what they see and hear from THEIR children. They do not need to view MSNBC or CNN and to hear the truth.
A retiree from Australia well equipped to spend hours on this board in a quest to TRY to know what is going on 14,000 miles away is admireable, but you cannot.
I lived in Virginia and I know some of these parents. Loudon and Fairfax counties are the worst.