Helping Teens Emancipate

[baker6332]

I have a question. MY two teenager babysitter who I have grown very fond of over the 7 years "ve known them are ina bad home life. I lived a few miles away and knew things were bad but didnt know how bad till I moved two houses down from them. I have a picture of when the mother hit the oldest and i have been on the phone with both of them while the mother and father verbally abuse them. The mother drinks all evening and sleeps all day, she gets up an hour before her husband gets home andgets up and makes the kids clean the house. She does nothing at all. I have had to buy all their school clothes and shoes, I provide when I can money for them to have fun on, and I take the oungest to and from school. The oldest does not attend school anymore because her mother wants someone at home with her. I'm so tired of going back and forth with these people they are ruining these poor girls lives and I'm trying everything I can to protect them but there is only so much I can do at this point because I'm not their mother. I was told that if the authorities were called because the girls are 15 and 16 they would just get put on the back burner cause they are close to 18. PLease help me, can they be emancipated? I want to take care of them myself.

[aaron]

You posted this in somebody else's thread rather than starting your own, so I'm not sure what state you're in. If you're in Indiana, start by reading this thread.

If you believe that a child or children are being abused, you can report the abuse to protective services.

[cbg]

Can the two girls support themselves, rent, food, clothing, utilities, medical care, transportation, school fees and supplies? Can they do it while they are still going to school and keeping their grades up?

If the answer is no, then no, they cannot emancipate.

[baker6332]

No they cannot but they are close to it, since the oldest does not go to school, she is trying to get a job. But I want to care for them, if emancipation is not an answer, then how would I go about trying for custody? These girls are in a bad bad situation, I need to get them out asap. And for me to call social services over them aint worth it, they just get sent back home to be beat again!

[panther10758]

No job and not going to school is two strikes already

[baker6332]

The oldest aint going to school cause of her mother its not what she wants she is so far behind now because of it she wants to go for her GED or be home schooled but the mother wont do it. These girls need help and all I'm being told is that they have to tough it out? This is why the world is the way it is. I need to help these girls, if anyone has any advise on how I can help them please please help me!

[FlyinHawk®]

You were told the way to help her, by contacting protective services, you are choosing not to do that.

[aaron]

Again, if you believe that a child or children are being abused, you can report the abuse to protective services.

[baker6332]

PROTECTIVE SERVICES is not going to anything for these children, I'm trying to tell you that but it's not working. I already called the police and they told me that they will just get sent back home.

[panther10758]

Your not listening just because CPS or Police do not take children does not mean they (the children) are not getting help. Furthermore the emancipation solution is not a good one or a likely successful one