I've rethought this.
You let kt go on these solo walks because she needs the exercise, but also to rebuild trust. By offering strange men something if they buy her cigarettes, she has shown she can't be trusted.
This smacks of manipulation. And I don't like that. Does she tell you these things for the shock factor, or is there just complete lack of guile?
But, then, if you take away the privilege of going for walks by herself is she going to run?
Either way it stinks.
And that's exactly why we gave in to difficult child 2. Because if we didn't he'd steal them, or steal money, or sell drugs, and take off for days on end. Which, he was already doing, by the way. So, in the end he got what he wanted and nothing else changed.
Except that he has *finally* stopped disappearing on us. But, that's only because his friends have moved on.