HomelesslyLoved
New Member
My jurisdiction is: Pennsylvania
I'm seventeen years old, a junior in high school, and I live in Pennsylvania. I don't have a very good homelife, and I've been very unhappy for many years now.
I was planning on participating in a foreign exchange student program for a year as a way to get out of my home and escape my parents with whom I'm having problems. The mother of one of my very best friends who is practically my sister made me realize that it was a bad way to try and escape my situation and offered to let me move in with her and her family. I am gladly willing to accept her offer, but I'm unsure of how my parents will react to both my decision to pull myself out of the F.E. program after deciding I wanted to do it, and my decision to move into my best friend's home with her family. I'm afraid they won't approve of it and not allow me to move out.
I'd rather not wait until I turn eighteen next September because I'm extremely unhappy with my homelife and have been severely depressed about it for several years. I feel the sooner I can leave, the better it will be for me because the problems I have at home are affecting me mentally, emotionally, and physically. I have difficulties sleeping because of all my stress and I can hardly concentrate in school because of the stress also. My grades have been suffering for a while, and I believe that if I get out of my situation, and into a better one, I'll be able to improve on my mentality and my schoolwork.
Is there a way I'd be able to move out if my parents don't give me permission? Or would that require me to emancipate myself or something to that extent? The sooner I get some help the better, so I really appreciate any responses I can get.
I'm seventeen years old, a junior in high school, and I live in Pennsylvania. I don't have a very good homelife, and I've been very unhappy for many years now.
I was planning on participating in a foreign exchange student program for a year as a way to get out of my home and escape my parents with whom I'm having problems. The mother of one of my very best friends who is practically my sister made me realize that it was a bad way to try and escape my situation and offered to let me move in with her and her family. I am gladly willing to accept her offer, but I'm unsure of how my parents will react to both my decision to pull myself out of the F.E. program after deciding I wanted to do it, and my decision to move into my best friend's home with her family. I'm afraid they won't approve of it and not allow me to move out.
I'd rather not wait until I turn eighteen next September because I'm extremely unhappy with my homelife and have been severely depressed about it for several years. I feel the sooner I can leave, the better it will be for me because the problems I have at home are affecting me mentally, emotionally, and physically. I have difficulties sleeping because of all my stress and I can hardly concentrate in school because of the stress also. My grades have been suffering for a while, and I believe that if I get out of my situation, and into a better one, I'll be able to improve on my mentality and my schoolwork.
Is there a way I'd be able to move out if my parents don't give me permission? Or would that require me to emancipate myself or something to that extent? The sooner I get some help the better, so I really appreciate any responses I can get.
