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**Guest** · 02-25-2018, 05:57 PM

hey. I'm 17 years old , I have a almost 2 year old daughter. I moved in with my father in north Carolina about 6-7 months ago , I've never lived with him ever before in my live. right now he is just a foster parent because the state of Georgia sent me up here , is there any possible way , I could move out without his consent ? I know in Georgia at 17 if they report a runaway they can't do anything about it because at 17 they consider you as an adult .

**Guest** · 02-27-2018, 03:21 PM

Hi, im turning 16 soon, my father is im prison and me and my mother dont get along at all, shes abusive and tends to call the police if i leave to avoid her, i have a few adults whom im close to and theyve offered me a home once im 16, if i move with them, can my mother call the police ans have me brought back home and will those adults be introuble, i spent losts of my childhood in court for custody issues with my parents and ive heard that has a toll on this issue as well.

**Guest** · 03-19-2018, 06:30 PM

Hi, I am 17 and my girlfriend is 16 and one time we were hanging out and she told me that she doesn’t want to go home because her dad was home and she is scared of what he might think she was doing while she had been gone. She always tells me how he abuses her and how she wants to move out but he won’t let her and she is at the verge of running away. Any suggestions on how I could help her?

**Guest** · 03-21-2018, 08:58 AM

Hello I am a 17 year old female. I live in Charlotte, NC in Mecklenburg county. I live with my biological mother and her alcoholic boyfriend. I have problems with suicidal thoughts and depression, but my mother or father do not get me help I have asked repeatedly And also have problems with self harm. My mother is very controlling and I am in a very unstable home and am in need of a stability household. I had a stable home open to me by my boyfriends family he is 18. But my mother did not like the fact I rather live with him and threatens to call the cops on me and him and threatens to tar us apart if he does not get a job which he is working on. Recently I called the cops because I was felling Suicidal and was having a panic attack and they told me about emancipation, but mother found out and cut all my ties with him and is trying to stalk me when i go to friends house has a tracker on my pone show up to where i am to make sure im actually there , she stalks my messages, I have a job, I am offering to pay my own phone bill and have transportation to work and school and a stable home. My mom does do drugs and her boyfriend is an alcoholic who kicks us out when he gets angry and has been very disrespectful to my friends and me and has been in and out of rehab and jail and has a record. I was wondering if i could leave home and stay with my boyfriend and his mother and two younger brothers for a stable environment for my mental health reasons. Without the cops tacking back home because I can not put up with the unstable house hold, I dont wanna go back to panic attacks, mental breakdowns and selfharm again. And can not take the mental abuse anymore, I feel i can not live through it for a whole year until im 18 In December ( 9 months)

**Guest** · 03-22-2018, 09:21 PM

Hi. I'm 16, soon to be 17 in April and I live in NC. I feel like running away. I'm gay and my parents have expressed how much they hate gay people since they are very religious. I get yelled at for every single thing I do and at this point I've had enough. The problem is, I don't know if I am legally allowed to run away and I don't know if I have a place to go to. I know that as soon as I come out they will most likely disown me. I have 2 very close friends and only one family member that I trust deeply. I'm not in the best mental state and I have thought about suicide several times. I remember I had almost ran away from home when I was around 10-11 years old. What do I do?

**Guest** · 04-05-2018, 06:25 PM

Im 14 gonna be 15 in less the 4 months & Living in Rowan Co. NC Now

I along with my 2 siblings where Stolen from my birth mother only to be put with my extemely abusive step grandpatents

Ok a bit of back history I was living with my mom and 2 siblings and step dad.
Well in 2007 my step dad rejoined the military and in June my mom let my sisters and I go stay with pur grandparents (at this point where not being abusive) for the whole summer. While we stay with our grandparents my step grandmother called DSS every other day through out June all the way into Aug when on Aug 14 she drove us girls to where my mom was and where my step dad was at to spend my sisters 3rd birthday and when we where staying at the hotel since dad was on leave she waited till the afternoon of the 15th to call DSS in Davie Co NC and told them that we where back in NC that my grandmother in NY sent us back to NC (we where never in NY) She lied to Dss all summer to get them to build a case against my mom telling them that I was hiding the kids in NC somewhere and then took off to NY with us girls. She told them lie after lie of abuse that never happen and drug abuse that was never going on. (Since step grandma was friends with the dss worker she believed eveything that was said) Well Aug 15 dad called his mother only person who knew where we where at. and filled her in and let he know that mom was taken us to NY to see our grandparents for about 3 weeks and then going to return back to NC so we could see him leave for Korea in Sept. Well step grandma did not like that one bit and was angry and pissed off and called Dss and lied to them yet again. All because she did not want mom to take my 3year old sister out of state cause she claimed she would never see her again and told Dss she feared for her grandchildrens safety.

Jump ahead to what they put me through (I am the oldest of the 3 of us) Step grandparents would force me to do exteme exercises and if I did not do them how they wanted or count them out loud i was hit with a fly swatter or a wooden spoon in the face ( she pulled us out of public school and claimed she was home schooling us) I along with my baby sister where beat repeatly even hit with a wiffle ball bat and when we fell to the ground I was kicked.
When I was 8y.o. my step grandfather was home watching me while my 7 and 6 year old sister where sent to day care for the valentines party and step grandma was at work well step grandfather forced me to strip naked completely and would not allow me to get dressed in any clothes cause he said I was stealing all his stuff, it wasnt until step grandmother called the house and he told her what he was doing and she told.him to make me get dressed. I have been locked up in my room for days on end with out food and only allowed out to use the bathroom and then locked up again. They have the food locked up so we can eat more then we are given witch is not much at all. My little sister will steal and hide food when noone is home and we get left alone for hours on end. The house phone is locked in the grandparents bedroom almost all the time so no one can use it. Step grandma pays my little sisters to lie to anyone who asked them about the abuse in the home (my middle sister calls it her grandma's truth money)
Rowan Co. Dss eventually got in volved in 2014 and closed out the case pretty much the same day.
Well with Dss closing out the case like they did the abuse got worse over the years and once they where informed of the abuse again in the beging of Sept 2017 the Supervisor told the person that reported they needed to mind their own business. Well now that im finally back in public school, the end of Sept 2017 the school reported to dss I showed up with 2 black eyes and they already had several reports pryor to the school filing a report with them.
My step grandpatents have attempted to hold me down and dump alocoh down my throat, I was beat with a belt from my shoulders down to my legs leaving bruises.
Both of my step grandparents have hit me so hard in the mouth it broke the brackets on my braces and then made me lie to my orthodontist and tell him I was hit in the mouth by a basketball.
They have both threaten me along with their other son that if they get arrested for the abuse I better be ready with a meat wagon and body bag waiting cause I will need it. Then my step uncle threaten me and told me I wont have to worry about them he will hunt me down and do it himself. They take mine and my siaters SSI checks and spend it on them self and then turn around and pay all my step uncles bills for the house (trailer home) step grandma bought for him to live in with our checks. Im made to wear clothes that are donated to us girls from people She works with cause they feel sorry she for her having to raise us girls and thing highly of her for take us in cause she told people my mom was a drug addict, told other people my mother beat us and forced us to like animals (all of witch is a lie) We where far from abused we where loved and wanted and spoiled rotten. Our punishment was a time out stool mom had. Our house was almost always cleaned unless us kids went through and tracked toys everywhere. She had a gate up to keep us out of the kitchen area so we didnt get burn by the stove ect.. We lived in a 2 story house our 3 bedrooms and moms was upstairs also, where up stairs and there where 2 more bedrooms down stairs and another room that she made into a storage room.!!!! (There is more abuse then what am posting. Like the beating my baby sister took from grandma even when Dss was involved and Grandma temping to try and burn down the house and thought my step dad and 2 sisters where asleep but dad got it before it could catch and spread. Not the first time she burned down a house she lived in just this one was caught before it could burn it down)
Step grandma finally after telling us kids all kinds of lies over the years about my mom about how she never loved us or wanted us and that mom was in prison for neglect and not loving us and drugs
Rowan Co. Dss worker (1st worker from End of Sept 2017) went to her supervisor and request a pull order and the supervisor denied her everytime she went to get one. The supervisor claimed there was not enough abise or proof to pull us girls instead after several months we had a sit down at dss with my mom there and mom recorded the whole meeting. I was promised visits with my mom (I was alowed to go see here for 6 days durning christmas break) Dss brought up they wanted my little sister put in public schooling and Grandma was to take online parenting classes. Never made the step grandfather do anything never even talked to him one time at all! My step dad came to the meeting also he told the workers he had just returned to NC and was finally moving back here and he was going to be taken over the home schooling of my 2 little sister and he was also moving over to my step grandparents land in Mocksville NC to live and was offically back to stay. That was a lie also he left 2 days after Easter back to Portland Oregon and once Step grandmother recieved the papers from Dss closing out the 2 open cases on her and my step grandfather.
She has told me now that my step dad is gone and Im not faking being happy that she was going to allow me to leave the house and I would never see my mom again till I was 18 and in college or living in my own place.

The Lawyers and cops and Courts and Dss in NC Exspecailly Rowan and Davie are very corrupt. The last time the worker came to school to speak to ke she tols me if their is any abuse to just call the cops because there was nothing Dss can do.

Since no one is wanting to help me or my sisters I plan to run away once I turn 15 maybe a month before. I can not take being in a house where im put down beat on called retarded and threaten and have everything taken from me and broke or thrown in the trash cause Step grandparents dont think I deserve anything at all.

**Guest** · 04-16-2018, 07:24 AM

Hi,
I'm a 16-year-old female in North Carolina, my parents and I don't always see eye to eye. My mom is always getting on my case for bad grades and when I try to talk to her about switching to a different school so I can succeed in school she tends to get very upset. The school I currently go to is very accelerated and we take college classes, I feel that this is just not the right fit for me. However I would still like to go to high school and get good grades and graduate. Another thing is that because of this school I get really bad anxiety, I have horrible panic attacks in the middle of the night. I also have depression, I used to go to counseling but I stopped once we moved and because I was no longer having depressive thoughts but recently it has come back. With all of this my mom still doesn't care she tells me that I need to grow up and to "F**k my feelings" I don't have a very close relationship with my dad, we don't really talk and when we do I tend to get very intimidated and uncomfortable. I would like to fix the situation but don't really know how so running away seems like a better option at the moment. If I ran away and went to my friends house in Tampa, Florida what would happen? I have looked up how I would get to her house everything is already planned out the only issue is my parents and the police. I'm turning 17 in July.

**Guest** · 04-16-2018, 06:25 PM

Bird Having to Leave the nest Early

I'm currently 15 years old(in North Carolina), i wish to runaway. I am fully aware of the consciences and able to take care of myself. I want to run away because i no longer feel comfortable in my house, my mother doesn't trust me and always invades any privacy i have, my father and i were never close to begin with. The older i get the more i feel like a burden, i feel hated in the house i live in. I worry that if i stay in this house any longer , i might kill myself. I wouldn't do it to spite my parents, but to free myself from a life i no longer wish to live

**Guest** · 04-20-2018, 01:06 PM

Hi, I am a 17 year old who was abused by my father in several ways for the 6 1/2 years that I lived with him. I need to know how to continue on with my life outside of his house and make something better for myself. It got so bad that my father would not let me go to school or work on school assignments at home, I started failing all of my classes, and he gave fake "emergency" excuses to my high school to excuse my absences as he would pull me out of school for weeks. I am not one of those teenagers who goes through a phase of thinking that nothing is fair and getting fed up with my father's rules. This has been a very serious matter and I have to do what is best for my future. I am well aware that the way my father treated me was a severe case of child abuse, as he would take away my privilege to eat or go to school, for infractions such as talking to my peers about the abuse that I was experiencing in his house. Now, I would like to legally go to a new school, get a job, and continue on with my high school life without the bound of my father's abuse. Emancipation, from my legal research and consultations with professionals, is an extremely difficult path and I do not have the necessary resources to file for it. I am seeking an option for continuing on with my life without having to wait until I am 18 in 6 months. How much authority does my father have over me as a 17 1/2 year old? Would he be able to take me away from starting a new school, job, etc. and taking control of my own life? I understand that I am not a legal adult, but I have credible family members that would provide a safe place for me to live and be a part of their home. I just want my life back, my father has taken enough of it away. My mother is not so credible in the court system, so her rights were taken away and my father has placement custody. How can I move on before I turn 18? Money is not a problem, safety is not a problem. Talking to him like a human and trying to reason is not an option, as I have tried on numerous occasions. Please help with any legal information that I could use to declare my freedom as soon as possible.

**Guest** · 04-25-2018, 07:39 AM

I am 18 years old in live in the state of North Carolina. My mother and I do not get along at all and she just threatens me and screams at me all the time for no reason and will take my car that isn't even in her name. I want to leave right now while she's gone to a doctors appointment in Virginia. However I am still a senior in high school and I'm on adult probation but I have someone to stay and they have an address, would I get in any trouble by the law or with probation? Could they make me return home? Do I have to go with my mom if she finds me?

**Guest** · 05-07-2018, 08:43 PM

i am 16 years old and i am pregnant i would like to know what i can do or cant do for example, can i move without my mom’s permission because she is bot letting me and i would like to know what are the things i can do and cant do. I live in North Carolina and the baby’s dad lives in Pennsylvania i will turn 17 in november

**Guest** · 05-11-2018, 11:59 PM

Hello, I’m 16 my parents moved me to North Carolina at age 12 from Colorado because of my dads job, had to make new friends, and make a life at our new home. We’ve had a struggle and moved twice while living here. We’ve been here for 4 years. I’m now 16 and have steady friendships. My parents now want to move to Idaho but I don’t. I want to refuse and have already planned out a place to live (with my two friends and her mom) and I have a minimum wage job at sonic. Could I refuse to go with my parents even though they want me to and live with my friends and their parent?

**Guest** · 05-18-2018, 01:11 PM

I am 16 years old and live in North Carolina. I used to live with my mom and dad but they were unfit parents at the time. Since then everything was perfectly fine until my grandpa got hurt on the job. It turned the both of them very hostile and they started arguing about everyday. They argue with us kids too. Mostly me. My little brother (13) is like an angel to them and they never even pay attention to my younger sister (15). So all of their hatred and hostility comes back to me. It's like anytime I try to talk to them they try to argue with me. I don't understand what I do/did to them. All I do is go to work, school, church, and home. They never let me out with friends and I'm turning 17 this December and I still have never been on a date or had a boy over. They tell me I can't have certain friends just because of their last names or where they live at. I have cried for days straight, been thrown on the ground and hit and threatened. They always tell me "pack your sh**". I have been talking to my real mother more and she has actually changed and gotten a job. She's cleaner and has her mind straight. I want to go live with her but my grandparents wouldn't let me. At first they told me they didn't care and to just go but when I grabbed my things they told me if I walked out of the door they would lock me up. So I just don't know what I can and can't do. I've been trying to research it but I can't find much. My mother already has visitation rights and she can come and see us but it's apparently illegal for me to leave. Please help because I really need to get out of this house. It's so unhealthy and it goes way beyond normal arguments with your grandparents. I can't stay there anymore.

**Guest** · 05-20-2018, 10:52 AM

I want to leave my house really bad. I just cant put up with living here anymore. i am 12 years of age and i want to run away but i dont want to see my dad or mother anylonger, like if the cops and stuff do get involved,which im pretty sure they will if i run away, i dont want to see them. i have friends parents who would let me stay and move in for as long as i wanted and im thinking about doing that really soon. any thoughts? im just writting down whats a little bit on my mine this second, i know it isnt the best "story" or even the best writting and i dont know what response im supposed to get out of this but here you go.

**Guest** · 05-21-2018, 12:29 PM

Hey I’m 15 about to turn 16 and I live in North Carolina. My Gardian hates it here and wants to move somewhere else out of the city I stay in. She has already moved and I’m staying with my guardians parent. If I run away will I go to jail? If I go and spend the night at someone else’s house and they’re grown and has there own house am I able to live there without getting in any trouble and still go to the same school ? If my Gardian files a report but the police doesn’t find me and take me home but I run away again will I go to jail?

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