agirl
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ORIGINAL: AquaticSub Only if it actually is theirs and not hers sweetie. Sometimes 18 year olds do this crazy thing called getting a job and saving up to buy their own stuff! OP, I'd suggest you make sure it's just her computer before mucking about with it. As in "completely hers, she takes it to college, no one else touches it" hers. Not shared in any way. That presumes that he's dating someone of his own age. If she's younger then she's still a minor and all bets are off. And if she's still living with her parents, not paying rent? Then it isn't hers as she isn't self supporting. The cops aren't going to accept his claim that she bought it from bagging at the grocery store when the parents file a complaint. If she's young and not paying rent? Good heavens.My children's belongings were theirs, regardless of their age and also regardless of who *bought* them. If I bought them a pc it was theirs, not mine .....unless, perhaps, I stipulated that it was MY pc and I was lending it to them, which isn't the same as giving it. Having control over behaviour isn't the same as having some kind of *ownership* over your child's belongings. Mine have *owned* things since they were babies. In our herb garden, all bets are NOT off *just* because a child is a minor. What belongs to them, belongs to them, whether I bought it for them or it was aquired through birthday gifts of cash...........how could it be otherwise? I'm not sure what your idea of self-supporting is, but it's got nothing to do with ownership of personal belongings. agirl
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