I agree to an extent. Your parents don't want you to deal with guys that are..... not nice. Some guys just want to go out with people for a little sumthin sumthin. I think that is why your parents are doing wat they are doing so that you dont spend your life hell bent on one person and admiring them for the rest of your life. But talk to your parents about dating and present a good argument. For example, I am 17 and my step dad didnt want me to bring my Ipod to school because he thought that they were not allowed. I snuck it in and out of the house for 3 weeks and finally got caught. If i had looked in the handbook i could have presented the argument that it was allowed. With your situation however it is not written down that you have to date some one but being in you later teenage years just talk to them and ask if you can go on a date with a boy. If they say no then proceed to ask them why. If they wont tell you then I would say the hell with it and do it anyways. Or just prove that you are mature enough to have a boyfriend. I hope this helps.

first of all u should go to your parent and have a long conversation with them, tell them that u are not a child any more, tell them that u are muture now, older now. tell them u know that they dont want u to grow up and u they babygirl, but u older now and responsible to have a boyfriend. tell, them that they cant treat u like a baby because they is going to regret it, because when u get grown, u aint going to want to do nothing on your own, u aint going to be able to do nothing with out them.