 | I have read your message, regarding your teen daughter. I sympathize with you. I have recently, experience an emotional and rug pull from under my feet by my daughter which is seventeen. About 6 months ago, she met up with this girl friend of her which girl has an older brother and you know the rest. Well recently, actually just a couple of days she decided that she is no longer an teen and she has decided to move out. She moved in with this girlfriend of hers, which girl lives with her mother and brother. The reason why she has decided to move out is because she started getting sexually involved with this boy and she confided in her aunt, which aunt in return told her mother.
My delema is that she is seventeen and I technically as a parent don't have any legal rights to force her to come back home.
The other thing is that the boy actually he is of legal age. I am terribly frustated, because as a parent don't want her to start her life like this. I am afraid that she might get pregnant and that will complicate her life. She was planning on attending college after graduation, but now I don't now.
Can I file for a restraint against this young man?, to try to keep her from further complicating her life with him. Can I or should I file for legal actions against him for getting involve with minor even if it was consentual?
I spoke to the social services and they advice me that I technically don't have legal grounds to force her back, BUT AS PARENT AND BY LAW,I MUST PROVIDE HER FINANCIAL, MEDICAL, AND WHAT EVER SHE MIGHT NEED UNTIL SHE IS OF AGE. The law seems to me that it is not really to help the parents and or to aid a kid and teen when in trouble. It appears to me that they are only there to encourage the kids and fuel their cause and further provoke them into allowing them to continue worse their situation(s).
Can some one give me some insight and advise as to what I might and can do?
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