Can You Get Emancipated Over Excessive Parental Discipline

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Indiana

We know a really good young man who is living what we believe is really unacceptable conditions. he is "Grounded" from about everything for nothing. He tries to wrestle on the high school team, help the younger kids from the JR High, he has missed two meets because his mom says he rude. We have picked him up from football practice when his mom has fallen asleep and forgot about him. This young man is the politest kid we have ever known. He just got a job and his check is put on a debit card, his mom took right away. He is not aloud to do anything. His mom don't even have custody of him, his dad does, but don't really want anything to do with him. We are willing to take him and let him finish school, sports and get him back and forth to work. Is there anything we can do?

Quite bluntly, no. There is nothing you can do. You do not have standing to do anything, and the court is not going to strip his parents of their rights because you don't like the way they parent.

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Quoting felack

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My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Indiana

We know a really good young man who is living what we believe is really unacceptable conditions. he is "Grounded" from about everything for nothing. He tries to wrestle on the high school team, help the younger kids from the JR High, he has missed two meets because his mom says he rude. We have picked him up from football practice when his mom has fallen asleep and forgot about him. This young man is the politest kid we have ever known. He just got a job and his check is put on a debit card, his mom took right away. He is not aloud to do anything. His mom don't even have custody of him, his dad does, but don't really want anything to do with him. We are willing to take him and let him finish school, sports and get him back and forth to work. Is there anything we can do?

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To expand a little, nothing you have said comes even close to the parents being unfit.

You've talked about him being grounded. Mom has the right to make him miss practice if he's mouthing off, and there aren't many parents who wouldn't do the same thing - I sure as heck would. As far as his job is concerned, his parents don't even have to let him work at all.

I guarantee you don't know the half of it and quite honestly it's not your place to opine about anything his parents are doing absent clear abuse and neglect - and nothing you have said even approaches either of those things.

I have to ask though. Exactly how do you know what's allegedly going on? His word?

All you know is what you're told. Teenagers lie very well. As Dogmatique said you don't even know the half of it and it is none of your business. By the way, the only money he has is the money Mom decides for him to have. Sports, gas to and from work, laundrying work clothes, etc all of these things and much more are just some of the things he should be paying for if he is working.