Pregnant Teen Wants to Get Emancipated

Just for the moment let's pretend your friend isn't pregnant.

Is she earning enough money to pay every single penny of what it costs to support her? Is she able to pay the market rate for rent, utilities, food, clothing, transportation, medical care, insurance, school fees and supplies, staples?

And now, let's remember that she's pregnant and will have medical bills in excess of $10,000 and the additional cost for a child.

Making enough to pay all that? While going to school and keeping her grades up?

No?

THAT'S why she cannot be emancipated.

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Quoting Disagreeable

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She has no right to go for a sonogram to glorify her pregnancy. She is a knocked up teen. She was truant from school, if she has no way to get there, she needs to get up earlier and catch the bus. She has no right to a job. It is something grandma allows when she is being responsible. As she is knocked up, that idea went out the window.

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she made a mistake that she has to live with everyday for the rest of her life. she is a human being. i came here for an answer to a question and i asked for a simple elaberation.her grandma handled it like a child. she has known from the start that she was pregnant and she just flipped a switch. you should never push someone who is pregnant.and if she wanted her to quit she could have told my friend that she needs to quit not handle it the way she did, it was immature for a 56 year old woman. my friend is very responsible, that is why we are friends in the first place. her getting pregnant was a mistake on her part but she is fully aware that she has screwed up and she took full responsibility for it. she did exactly what she should have done in that situation. however her grandma was the one in the wrong. she pushed a pregnant woman into the edge of a counter. she lied to her work and called the cops on my friend for something she didnt do and had no controle over. and shes not going to "glorify" her pregnany shes going to make sure that her child is healthy and safe. its not like her grandma pays for anything involving the pregnany. my friend takes care of everything involving it. her grandma does nothing but give her a ride once every month or so, and my friend pays for the gass on the way there.

None of which changes a single word of the law on emancipation.

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Quoting cbg

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None of which changes a single word of the law on emancipation.

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oh i know. but the comment i was replying to was emotionless and rude.

It is, however, in many ways true. The child's health will not be jeopardized if your friend does not learn the gender ahead of time. It is not her grandmother's responsibility to take her to school if she misses the bus - it's her responsibility to get up on time. She didn't go to school? She's skipping. She is not entitled by law to a phone of her own. Whether Grandma goes to work or not is between Grandma and her employer and has nothing to do with your friend.

Your friend needs to understand that once the baby is born, Grandma does not have any legal obligation to lift a single finger. She has no responsibility to take care of the child, or take her and the baby to the doctor, or do anything at all. It is going to be 100% on your friend. She needs to get used to that idea right now and start taking responsibility for herself. And no, she will not qualify to be emancipated then, either; not unless she's got the money to pay everything I mentioned above.

Ahhhh teens, they think they know everything.

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Quoting cbg

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It is, however, in many ways true. The child's health will not be jeopardized if your friend does not learn the gender ahead of time. It is not her grandmother's responsibility to take her to school if she misses the bus - it's her responsibility to get up on time. She didn't go to school? She's skipping. She is not entitled by law to a phone of her own. Whether Grandma goes to work or not is between Grandma and her employer and has nothing to do with your friend.

Your friend needs to understand that once the baby is born, Grandma does not have any legal obligation to lift a single finger. She has no responsibility to take care of the child, or take her and the baby to the doctor, or do anything at all. It is going to be 100% on your friend. She needs to get used to that idea right now and start taking responsibility for herself. And no, she will not qualify to be emancipated then, either; not unless she's got the money to pay everything I mentioned above.

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she is completly aware, ater the baby is born her grandma wants nothing to do with her, and her grandma is retired the job thing was about my friend not the grandma. and school is too far for her to walk while pregnant or she would have shes done it before. she wasnt asking for a phone she was asking to make a phone call to tell her boss she couldnt come in today but her grandma said no and she accepted it but then her graandma called my friends work and got her fired.
my friend (lets call her hannah because i dont want to give out any names) hannahs grandma is planning on kicking her out when shes 17 and moving to the lake house in a completly different city. she caused hanah to lose her job knowing that she would be screwed when the baby came.

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people with your attitude seriously get on my nerves. i asked a question because i was curious. there is no reason for snarkiness. im not arguing with anyone or giving an attitude i am just trying to best explain the situation in its entirety.

People like Hannah seriously get on my nerves because they make all their decisions with impunity and expect the grownups to foot the bills. Then they scream for emancipation so they can go on welfare and get more taxpayer money.

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Quoting drayia

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people with your attitude seriously get on my nerves. i asked a question because i was curious.

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Dear, the feeling is likely mutual.

Okay, so Hannah's grandmother is not a nice person. That's a shame.

It does not give Hannah any options. The law is not going to change because Hannah is in a bad position (much of her own making).

Hannah is going to have to deal.