Bad parenting

Now, tell me if I'm wrong, but IMO this is just awful parenting.
The other day, my mother's friend told my mother about her fifteen year old daughter's fake ID. She said "it's okay, because she's told me she's got one".
She obviously knows that her fifteen year old daughter is buying alcohol and ciggarettes with it, and is not doing anything about it because she's too scared of her own daughter.

Might I just add that her daughter is a complete sket, smokes, drinks and does drugs.