Legal Question in Family Law in Virginia

Re: Parental Supervision of a Minor

It would be virtually impossible for any child neglect charge to be brought against you from your giving approval to your daughter to go on vacation with her friends and without adult supervision.( I haven't the space here to explain why this is true for this particular situation.)

Only if your daughter were to commit willful and deliberate torts(civil wrongs) against the person and/or property of another is it conceivable that you could incur legal liability for her actions

while she's vacationing with friends.(Parents can

be held responsible for these kinds of acts committed by their children).

However, none of the above should necessarily be determinative as to whether you should allow your daughter to go on this vacation. You may have other valid reasons as to why you don't wish her to go but your concern about incurring a charge for child neglect should not be one of these reasons.