Thank you for using JustAnswer. Yes there is no constitutional right for parents to be present or even notified of teen questioning. If he asked for a lawyer and was denied one and then questioned then his rights have been violated. Note that a confession by a juvenile or teenager under 18 bears special scrutiny by the courts, because the police often do not allow them to talk to parents or a trusted adult before or during questioning, and many times a youngster is intimidated by the police more easily that an adult, and will have his free will overcome. A juvenile will sometimes say he understands his rights to avoid appearing ignorant or stupid to the police. So a court will determine if any confession or other statement against interest was coerced or forced, but there is no right to have ones parents present. A juvenile still does have a right to an attorney, as found under Miranda v. Arizona. But a juvenile does not have a right to have any other party (including a parent) present.

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There's no set time period. Rather, the courts view the juvenile just like an adult, able to contact his or her own parents (or lawyer, etc...) with his "phone call". (That's another misconception, in that typically individuals are not limited to just one phone call, and often the holding areas will have phones in them). Now it might be possible that a state or local municipality has enacted some law / ordinance / regulation that states that a police department has to notify parents, etc... but there's no federal or constitutional rule.

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