How Can One Leave

[Kennethwo]

My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Pennsylvania
I know that you can either leave home under the age of 18 if you are emancipated or your parents give you permission. If your parents don't give permission to leave and you have to be emacipated to legally live on your own, how do can you get an apartment or place to live in and support yourself? If parents own their child's wages that they earn how can they even go about getting emancipated? It seems the emancipation and junvenile laws are set up to prevent kids from advancing earlier in life and make them wait til 18 when they could start their lives a year or months sooner.

[aardvarc]

That's exactly how it's set up, for the reason that parents are expected to do their job as parents until 18, and emancipation is for those who NEED it due to circumstances beyond their control - typically where a parent is no longer ABLE to provide things like shelter, food, etc. None of the "ways out" are INTENDED for the purpose of advancing kids further or faster, thus, they all have requirements that are very high, on purpose. Which is why the only really viable option for 99.99999999% of minors is parental permission, because that can be revoked.

[cbg]

If your parents don't give permission to leave and you have to be emacipated to legally live on your own, how do can you get an apartment or place to live in and support yourself?

You don't. It really is that simple.

Emancipation is not a right. It is a privilege. Most will not earn it, and even many of those who could meet the requirements will not acheive it.

Emancipation is not all it's cracked up to be. I very strongly recommend that you read FlyinHawk's blog about his experiences with emancipation, which is not about "starting your life" but about providing protections to kids who don't have any. Where did you get the idea it was so that you could advance what you think of as "life"?