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It's the ex-paramour, not the husband, who hires a detective agency to dog the mysteriously wayward Sarah, and--in one of those ironies that feels delightfully postmodern--it's Maurice himself who ends up being trailed by a Cockney gumshoe, Parkis (an amusingly earnest Ian Hart), when Sarah reinitiates contact.
The high-decibel concern about wayward youth is full of defensive bluster and muddle-headed ambivalence, and it is strikingly lacking in realism.
According to Hochschild, Total Quality "presumes the worker is a capable adult, not a wayward child."
Even the clergy are easy: Wayward Catholics are welcomed on the home page of the White Robed Monks of St. Benedict, who "recognize that Jesus never really said No to anyone."
Weekly Hatch Toons attack the senator's opponents: A cartoon of a wayward youth smoking something quotes the parents' impression that their boy is "presidential material.