Laura Dekker, a 14-year-old girl from The Netherlands, departed from Amsterdam this week to become the youngest person to sail around the world.Â
This comes two months after Abby Sunderland, a 16-year-old American teenager attempting the same circumnavigation, had to be rescued in the Indian Ocean.
There are 16-year-olds who can’t be trusted to drive to the mall alone. What in the world are these parents thinking in letting teenagers sail around the planet alone?
Well, we know what Sunderland’s parents were thinking: they were  … Details