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In reply to the discussion: Pregnant Teen Wins Abortion Battle [View all]Igel
(35,173 posts)Parents have her on their phone plan. Remove her. Phone's gone.
Parents have her on their insurance. Remove her. Car can't be legally driven.
Unless, of course, she gets a job (or two) to pay for insurance and phone, assuming that somebody will cosign. As a minor, she can't enter into a binding contract on her own.
Parents own the car. Parents can reclaim it. Can a minor own title to a motor vehicle?
If she's with the grandparents, there's a chance--possibly an excellent chance--that she's outside of the zone for her school and possibly outside of the district. That would explain the need for the car--no bus service (although there's this scary need for seniors to show that they're seniors by driving to school--a schoolbus in your senior year is a sign of poverty and humiliation). If she's outside the district or school zone, then they can say she's not a resident and she's no longer enrolled.
Then again, she's their dependent. A parent in Texas has the right to home school. The kids don't withdraw themselves. The parent does it, usually while the kid's in class or at home (in my limited experience).
No car. No phone. No high school class. Social withdrawal--and since most of the 16-year-old girls I'm familiar with would rather see both parents slow-roasted over a charcoal pit at Homecoming than see their social support group diminished, this would be harsh coercion indeed.