Is There a Time Limit on How Long You Can Ground Your Teenaged Child

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Colorado

Hey everyone. This is whathappensafter's mother here. After confiscating my daughter's laptop and going through the history i found this site. She had her password for it saved and I am appalled at what she has been posting here. My husband and I have decided we need to get her straightened out before she ends up in juvenile detention. We have considered grounding her until she's 18 (or until we trust her again, whatever happens first) but is it legal to have her grounded for 4 years? As she has posted, she is living a minimalist life right now with no electronics or technology and has no makeup or jewelry and only changes of weather appropriate clothing.

We feel like grounding her for a long period time is the only thing that will work but we need to make sure we aren't breaking any laws. She threatened to call CPS on us already.

You can ground her for as long as you can make stick. If that's 4 years, go for it. I absolutely promise you that there are no laws anywhere in the US that will prohibit you from grounding her beyond x amount of time.

Hopefully this is truly her parent....

You are the parent. I suggest counseling/therapy for her and the whole family.

Grounding for 4 years isn't going to have the results you want. I suspect she will do everything she can to get out, especially if there is no way for her to earn back trust and privileges. It will get worse, not better. You need help...you won't solve this yourself -- it's way too late for that. You need intervention at this point and 4 years of grounding is just going to make her hate you more than she already does (for whatever reasons, fair or not)

She refuses therapy and if i did put her in it I doubt she would talk to the therapist. I can force her to be in therapy, but i can't force her to talk. Which is why i feel like having her on a short leash until she's 18 is my only option. Her and her 24 year old boyfriend dating, i have been against since the very beginning of it all. I realized just how serious it was after she tried to flee the country with him. If she keeps defying me i feel like military school is my only hope.

All of you need therapy, not just her. Family therapy.

I can kind of see her frustration with you. All blame is on her it seems but you hold more blame than her for the situation, you are the parents.

I caught her trying to make fake adoption papers to make it seem like her boyfriend is her parent. Also found out she is communicating with her boyfriend.

Folks, please be reminded that whathappendsafter is freegirl and lp101.

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Quoting eerelations

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Folks, please be reminded that whathappendsafter is freegirl and lp101.

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Yeap. This.

Not to mention lollipops.

Frankly, I don't care if this is the parent or the kid. The legal answer to the question asked here is the same. Yes, it is legal to ground the kid for four years. And in my view it can't happen too soon.

Bet money on it's the kid. No parent is this dumb and trying to sound officially parent like. Lollipops, lp101, freegirl, whoever. Juvie is in your future. Because you think you're smart.