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    Default Can a Parent Take a Child's Property as a Punishment

    Parents of a sixteen-year-old in Colorado are having trouble with his behavior. They confiscated his extensive knife collection, and told him that he cannot have it back until his school attendance, grades and behavior improve. He insists that he received some of the knives as gifts and that he bought the others with his own money, and that his parents have no right to take them. Is it legal for them to keep his property from him?

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    Default Re: Can a Parent Take a Child's Property as a Punishment

    Parents have a parental duty to keep their child safe, and a parental right to impose discipline, so they can do all sorts of things that affect him and his property -- including the extreme "tough love" remedy of taking his bedroom door off of its hinges, and taking everything out of his bedroom but the bed and mattress, then making him earn back any other items of furniture or property. The can also ground him. His parents can tell him that he can have his knives back when he cleans up his act, or when he reaches the age of 18 and moves out.

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