She was 12 and, her mother said, she was not fitting in with her father's new family. She grabbed her camo-coloured iPhone 4s and shot a text to a friend - roughly: I don't like his ratchet girlfriend or her kids. It was 2013. That word - "ratchet" - was running through rap songs and teens' text messages, thought to mean a low-class and clueless diva. When Ronald Jackson saw it, he took away his daughter's cellphone. "I was being a parent," Jackson recently told CBS-DFW. "A child does something wrong, you teach them what's right." Jackson, a 36-year-old from Dallas, Texas, was ultimately arrested and charged with property theft, a Class B misdemeanour - because...
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