Book #82 - Smart Women by Judy Blume

I picked this book the week before last because it was very short, and I thought it would be a quick in-between, no-thought book. The book was published in 1983 and was an introspective look at the "modern-blended family" and the struggles they have. Parts of it were difficult for me to stomach because of the parenting decisions the lead character made. She has 2 high school aged children and has her boyfriend move in. Do you wonder why the son knocked up his girlfriend, and the daughter was having sex with the first offer that came around? Maybe that was just what Judy Blume was trying to demonstrate through this family. Perhaps it was all about giving a visual for the decisions and actions we take and those consequences which always follow. I don't know...perhaps she was just telling it how it is in many families nationwide.