Here's my situation: I've lived with my parents my whole life and I'm absolutely miserable. I suffer from minor depression and occasional suicidal thoughts due to my situation and relationship with my parents, along with situations they've put me into (of which I prefer to not specifically speak about, but from what I understand, some of what my father does could be considered emotional abuse). I have a best friend whose family has offered to help me find a legal way to move in with them and be in a safer environment, which my best friend (who is 1
and her parents have agreed would be more beneficial to my well being. I want to take them up on the offer, however I also have four siblings that can be effected by my decisions. For what I've discovered, I can do emancipation (earn legal ability to have some rights an 18 year old would have) or change legal guardianship. With the first option, I would need a way to financially support myself, however this is not possible for me. For changing legal guardianship, I would have to prove my parents to be legally incapable of caring for me. My fear however is that this will affect my siblings, one who is only 2 and another who is going into college next year, and who their legal guardians will be if my parents are deemed unfit for only caring for me. I don't want to be the person that ruins my siblings future, but at the same time my current mental and emotional health is being destroyed by continuing to live with my birth parents. Any advice on this situation would be appreciated, thank you.

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