A) how the hell are we supposed to read that without a magnifying glass?
B) if you live under my roof and I am having to clean YOUR shit, you better damn well believe I'm going to stay apprised of what you're potentially getting involved in. And if you wanted privacy, do your own cleaning so she has no reason to be in your room moving things around.
Wrong. Once mail is delivered to your house it is no longer property of the USPS, so its not a crime, especially if its addressed to a minor child in your custody. If it were illegal, then any parent opening a birthday or Christmas package for their toddler or baby would be breaking the law. Also, this doesn't say anything about it being mail, just an "envelope labeled private" which most likely HADN'T been through the mail to begin with. Minors honestly don't have much in the way of property rights or privacy rights (in regards to their parents) legally, as they are under the legal guardianship of their parents/guardians unless emancipated.
No, the privacy part DOES apply. If you open up your kid's birthday card, you are, technically, committing a felony. It gets squirrelly when you bring property rights into it, especially with packages.
children do have property rights at least in america. An american child has the same property rights (and by extension the same protections) as an adult with the single difference in that parents are allowed to take "temporary possession" of a child's property for safety or disciplinary purposes. If a parent takes something away from a child that they legally own "IE, bought themselves, was gifted, etc" and either never returns it or destroys it they are coming thief and in the later case destruction of property. In the case that a parent takes away/destroys say, a PC, thats grand theft, which is a felony. Mail theft, opening someone elses mail at any point even after delivery, is a felony which can hold up to 5 years in prison. A child, as stated above, has the same property rights as an adult in america and as such has the same protections under the law from mail theft as an adult and the parent opening it would be the same as a roommate opening your mail, meaning a felony.
did you even read your sources? your mail source even says you have to have explicit permission to open someone else's mail.
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here, have another article from your same source (the exact same website) that directly says in the first line
"All children under the age of 18 have the same rights with respect to owning property"
"parents have no ownership rights over the property of children. Parent's do, however, have legal responsibility for their children's actions, both criminally and civilly, under the doctrine of parental liability."
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https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2018/08/do-parents-own-their-childrens-property.html
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another quote from the website you introduced as a source
"Parents, as legal guardians, may be allowed to take temporary custodial control of their children's property, and hold it in good care for them until a set time, and then return it. The child still owns the property, though they may not be constantly in possession."
No court of law would uphold a child's right to "privacy" from a parent, its part of being a GUARDIAN to know what your child is involved in. On top of that, if a child had a "right to property" then a child taken into state custody would not be forced to leave most of their belongings behind, unless of course you are suggesting the state then be charged with loss of said property. The basic fact is, aside from the much broader and obviously more crucial, human rights, minors DO NOT have the same rights, just as they cannot legally own property, cars or purchase alcohol and tobacco until a specific age. As far as taking property away, the child would have to prove ownership (possession doesn't matter), and that they purchased the item(s) with their own money (something also not easily proven since minors under a specific age can't legally work). Cases like this are based in the most likely situation, without documented evidence to the contrary, and the most likely ca see e would be
The parents would be assumed to have made the purchase, thus the item is their property.
Now, obviously this varies dramatically by the age and individual circumstances of the minor in question. Obviously the same stipulations would not be as overtly one sided for a 16 year old as a 7 year old. But given the mother is having to clean the son's room, I'm assuming he's either not old enough or he's so damned lazy he's not to be trusted. That's assuming this is real rather than just another "and every one clapped" fantasies written by an entitled child.
and now you are completely ignoring the facts in the source that you yourself provided. Im out, you arent debating, you dont care about the truth, you are grandstanding on your soap box.
B) if you live under my roof and I am having to clean YOUR shit, you better damn well believe I'm going to stay apprised of what you're potentially getting involved in. And if you wanted privacy, do your own cleaning so she has no reason to be in your room moving things around.
Mail:
https://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-is-the-federal-law-for-opening-mail-not-addressed-to-you/
Rights:
https://family.findlaw.com/emancipation-of-minors/what-are-the-legal-rights-of-children.html
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here, have another article from your same source (the exact same website) that directly says in the first line
"All children under the age of 18 have the same rights with respect to owning property"
"parents have no ownership rights over the property of children. Parent's do, however, have legal responsibility for their children's actions, both criminally and civilly, under the doctrine of parental liability."
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https://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2018/08/do-parents-own-their-childrens-property.html
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another quote from the website you introduced as a source
"Parents, as legal guardians, may be allowed to take temporary custodial control of their children's property, and hold it in good care for them until a set time, and then return it. The child still owns the property, though they may not be constantly in possession."
Now, obviously this varies dramatically by the age and individual circumstances of the minor in question. Obviously the same stipulations would not be as overtly one sided for a 16 year old as a 7 year old. But given the mother is having to clean the son's room, I'm assuming he's either not old enough or he's so damned lazy he's not to be trusted. That's assuming this is real rather than just another "and every one clapped" fantasies written by an entitled child.