Insane People Quora

American children do not have human rights til age 18

In the U.S., doubt it. My door was taken away at 14 for sneaking out of the house one night and I only got it back a month before graduating high school because my dads girlfriend called him out on it. I honestly wasnt a bad kid growing up. Other than literally a few stupid moments, including the sneaking out, I was normally that sterotypical straight A honor student that kept to themselves.

Can't be taking away privacy if they have none in the first place. tap tap head

I had my door taken away as a teenager and I turned out fine /s

Tell that to our government. They don't care about our privacy.

It's completely idiotic because internal door locks, the kind in the knob, have a little hole that you can use a tool to unlock it from the outside. I think it's meant for in case of emergency, but the point is they're trivially easy to unlock.

The parents are more likely control freaks.

a window was open in the house and I accidentally shut the door too loudly one time and my door was removed for ~~weeks~~ months (there was no history of me slamming doors, I think punishment for the sake of punishment was the point)

no privacy for changing, sleeping, etc. - it was stressful

EDIT: I just remembered it was more than weeks, it was months - I had journal entries about wondering when I would ever get my door back.

Do their kids still talk to them?

I had friends who's parents did that when we were kids. They moved as far as they physically could as soon as they turned 18.

Yea my parents did that. I didn't want to spend time with them because they were abusive assholes (why yes, CPS were called!), but apparently that meant there was something wrong with me, so they took the door off my room so I couldn't have a safe space from the constant screaming and violence. Guess who swung hard Trumpy antivaxx Q believers in 2016?

Did they also punch a hole in the wall when it was hot instead of opening a window? Locks can be removed from doors.

I removed my daughters door for a week because she wouldn't stop slamming it, even after having to pay for the second replacement out of her allowance. I hung a blanket across the door frame. She still slams it every once in a while when she's mad, but no where near as often, and now her door has a lock.

My parents just ensured the lock on the door knob had a slit on the outside so you could stick anything in there and rotate to unlock it. Half the time, they just used a long fingernail or the edge of a coin. It didn't require much effort.

They'd still get mad at me for locking my bedroom door and would threaten to remove the door if I kept locking it, but it took them maybe 10 seconds to open it without tools.

They never followed through on the threat; I kept my bedroom door all throughout my childhood.

My parents did this and claimed it was normal and to "ask your friends at school" I did, and they said it was abuse. She didn't change her mind.

Wrong post, lol

I don't know which post you meant that for, but to me, it seems to make pretty good sense with this one.

People are strange.