My wife and I married in 2013, at that time my step daughter was attending nursing college ( A grown person on her own) When she first met me, she had a good attitude towards me ( she is a only child and raised by her mother and really seemed to be a great person to ` hang around` with.   I discovered that she always had her mother at her disposal. My wife and I talked about it and it was agreed that Sd is no longer a  ` kid` so we treated her like a grown woman. Then she started to rack up ` traffic warning citations ` to the tune of 3 with in 1 year.