Re: Letter Given by Parents Stating for My Family to Avoid Communication
Didn't Shakespeare write a play about this type of situation?
Or maybe it was a Faulkner novel that I'm thinking of.
Re: Letter Given by Parents Stating for My Family to Avoid Communication
Oh give it a rest.
When you're qualified to diagnose mental health conditions, and able to treat the person, come back and talk to us.
Until then, keep your armchair diagnoses out of it.
Re: Letter Given by Parents Stating for My Family to Avoid Communication
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A cop isn't going to waste their time when no law has been broken. Also, just because they come with a cop doesn't automatically give them the authority to do as they please.
Ya want to bet? I know for a fact some cops have done exactly this.
but the parents still have legal control of their 17 yo child.
and yet you have STILL not answered the question.
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If she runs away from home and you conceal her from her parents, YOU and your parents can face other criminal charges. BAD idea! Really, REALLY bad!
Most every teenager believes they have "mentally unstable" parents. That's code for, "They don't understand me," or, "They won't let me do what I want to." Sorry, but, as was mentioned if she is being abused or neglected, the people to call are the police or CPS and NOT take her in to your home and risk jail for everyone.
Once again, she is a minor. Her parents control her comings and goings. If they truly don't like you, they can move her to another school, they can home school her, they can take her phone and computer privileges away, and a host of other things. If you want to remain in communication with her surreptitiously at least at school, you had best get any ideas of open defiance or aiding her in her open defiance out of your head. Aiding her in being defiant to her parents probably will get you on the receiving end of a PPO.
Read MCL 721.151 and 721.152 before you get so cocky about what you think you know.
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Harboring a runaway. That will get you 3 hots n a cot.
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It not meant to be an act of defiance it's to save her from mentally unstable parents who are emotionally abusive. Even if courts were involved I have several adults who would back my statement, including school counselors and teachers.
Re: Letter Given by Parents Stating for My Family to Avoid Communication
psst, Carl, that doesn't apply once she turns 17. You know, those whacky laws we have with the 17 year olds.
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AIDING OR ABETTING VIOLATIONS OF JUVENILE COURT ORDERS (EXCERPT)
Act 296 of 1968
722.151 Aiding or abetting violations by juveniles, or harboring runaways prohibited.Sec. 1.
No person shall knowingly and wilfully aid or abet a child under the age of 17 years to violate an order of a juvenile court or knowingly and wilfully conceal or harbor juvenile runaways who have taken flight from the custody of the court, their parents or legal guardian.
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psst, Carl, that doesn't apply once she turns 17. You know, those whacky laws we have with the 17 year olds.
For the moment, she's 16.
States like Michigan and, I believe, Texas need to change these loopholes because parents are still legally responsible for the care of the child even if they have zero control.
I feel sorry for this girl if she takes her boyfriend's "advice" and shacks up with him at age 17 ... she'll be suffering for it in a couple of years perhaps when she's a high school dropout and pregnant, and his parents get tired of supporting them and they have to find a seedy section 8 apartment somewhere and live off of welfare. Yeah, I'm cynical - I see this crap every flippin' day, and the stats support this as being more fact than whimsy ... unfortunately.
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For the moment, she's 16.
States like Michigan and, I believe, Texas need to change these loopholes because parents are still legally responsible for the care of the child even if they have zero control.
I feel sorry for this girl if she takes her boyfriend's "advice" and shacks up with him at age 17 ... she'll be suffering for it in a couple of years perhaps when she's a high school dropout and pregnant, and his parents get tired of supporting them and they have to find a seedy section 8 apartment somewhere and live off of welfare. Yeah, I'm cynical - I see this crap every flippin' day, and the stats support this as being more fact than whimsy ... unfortunately.
she turns 17 in less than a month. From the tenor of the OP's posts I believe they intend on waiting to do anything as far as the girl leaving, until after that time.
but I do agree with the rest
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I take it he's has gone to learn more for his armchair diagnosis session?
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Legally in Michigan, until she is 18, she is a MINOR.
Also, there's that other issue of as long as she lives under her parents roof, it's their house and their rules.
So unless he wants to lose his chance at college, I would suggest don't contact her until she is 18 and no longer living at home.