Can I give up my parental rights if I am tired of dealing with my disobedient son?

Answer 1

What else have you tried before you considered this option?

Answer 2

Tired of dealing with your disobedient son? How old is your son? What do you consider disobedient? Not going to bed without a fuss? Or is he out with the boys raising hell and getting into trouble with the law? You need to be more specific in order for this question to be answered intelligently. Give us an age of 0 - 18 years of age. And some example of his disobedience. I'm curious so I'll be checking back.

Answer 3

Could you be the cause of your son being so disobedient? Yes you can give him over to the State, but is that what you want to look back on when he's 30 years old. Can you get help? Can you go to counseling? Have you exhausted every resource? When a mom gives up, a son feels he is completely no good and will get even worse. Pray because prayer works. Get on your knees and cry out to God on behalf of your son. Fast and pray for one week, I guarantee you will have an answer and will see changes that you never believed were possible.

Answer 4

I am going to presume that you are a good parent
I am going to presume that your son is defiant and that as any good parent would do you have pursued help that has not been helpful in addressing the needs of your situation

You can do what my grandma did to my aunt-she took her to a residential facility where state wards are placed. i do believe you have to pay for this. my aunt stayed for a week but before her first day ended she was calling my grandma to come home. My grandparents stuck to their guns and Left her there for a week to let her appreciate what she had at home. they didn't have any more problems with her respecting the rules of the house and as her niece i got to hear the tale from her my mom and grandparents which motivated a whole generation to behave :-)

That is one option, you can also offer to help him get emancipated but remind him that he wont be able to live with you after that because emanicipation is a separation from a parent

You could just kick him out and put him on the street-millions of people do this every year and its sad but when they ask for help like you are doing people judge them instead of trying to help.
I can talk and tell you what i think but ultimately you know what is best in your situation.

Let God be your guide and stand by whatever decision you make no matter how hard. Feel free to email me to talk-at least you care enough to ask what you can do legally instead of just acting like there is no problem.

In these united states hitting a child will get you life and give them free access to ruin two lives-yours and theirs.

God Bless and good luck!

Answer 5

I dont think giving up parental rights is the way to go about it. I think there are programs and counselors that are available to parents that have problems with their kids. I am going to guess he's probably between 12 and 15? Check into going on Maury or something and do the boot camp thing. Regardless of his behavior, he is still your son and you would kick yourself if you did give up your rights, especially once he grows up and matures. And he will resent you for it as well in the long run even more.

Answer 6

Did your parents give up on you when you acted out as a child. Not sure what you mean by disobedient son either. Most kids go through phases and test your sanity. I know that I was wild as a child but calmed down in adulthood. Find what he likes the most in the world and punish him from that. Tell him he can have it back when his attitude and behaivor changes.

Answer 7

Yep--give up on him!! Did you ever consider that you are the reason he is disobedient? If you are willing to get on here and tell us you want to get away from him, I bet you have said the same mean and hateful things to him.

Try loving him! Try respecting the fact that he was given to you to take care of and you need to do that!! Not with material things necessarily, but with love, compassion and understanding!

You honestly should be ashamed of yourself! I understand being frustrated, but to want to give up on your child.....that is disgusting!!

Look at yourself very closely and I almost guarantee you will find the problem with your son! Go to counceling, fix whatever is going on with you. Become a better parent and maybe your son will have a chance!

Answer 8

I think you can, but please don't ,, he's still your son, the one you love & have raised all his life. It's true you are going through some difficulties with him, but you can't give up on him now, he's probably a teenager & isn't so wise in making any decissions in his life yet, though you two have alot of problems & missunderstandings, you can still work it out somehow. there is always another solution to this & you are not alone. alot of parents go through problems with their children,& alot of them work things out in the end.
Keep your mind off the problems you two fight about, try talking to him as a friend, ignore his many mistakes for a while & try "talking", comutication is a key to solving these kinds of problems, I'm sure you two still love each other no matter what goes on between the two of you. & as a mother, you should be patient, motherhood is not an easy job, it's hard giving birth, its hard taking care of a baby & it's hard raising a child. but you can do it , just like all mothers can. most teenagers "wake up" & realize the damages they have done, so please don't give up on your child. I'm sure you have raised him well enough to realize he's not being a good son & he'll come to you & appoligize for every mistake he did. I'm 21 & I have to say I made my parents like a living hell when I was a teenager, I even spent the night in jail once, that's when I "woke up" & realized they still loved him, though our many fights, it was up to them to either leave me there or come & bail me out. Give your son a chance, I Swear to God, He will wake up, something will happen & he will realize he needs you in his life & he loves you more than anything..
Please try to talk to your son, ask him why your relationship is like this, try to reason with him, if you had to bend some small rules for him, to make the two of you happy, do that, he's still a kid & he needs you. All teenages wake up at a certain time, don't you wanna be there when that happens?

Answer 9

Regardless, part of being a parent is to 'put up with' your kids. Take an active parenting role in his life, stand your ground and maybe he'll be less disobedient.

Answer 10

You need to find someone to help both of you. I have a very trying 10 year old and there are some days I could just call his father and say come get him and dont bring him back. But what would that do to him? And that really isnt what I want, I suspect it isn't what you want either. We recently met with our family physician who diagnosed my son with mild to moderate depression. That seems to be the underlying problem to his lack of obedience, respect etc. We are working on it. We are trying homeopathic options first before resorting to prescriptions. There are a lot of resources out there, reach out and let them help you. Start with a family physician or school counselor they can refer you to the appropriate places. Hang in there and good luck. I know how beat up you can feel somedays. But think how beat up he will feel if you just throw in the towel.

Answer 11

We all get tired of dealing with out of control kids. Do you really want to give up your own kid? Start tough love with him, take away what he treasures most (tv-video games) until he learns to do as he is told. I see nothing wrong with a swift kick in the a$$ now and then either. Get him into some programs to help him learn how to deal with things. And maybe a parenting class to give you help on how to deal with it yourself.