My Step Mom Abuses Me if I Don't Work for Her

My question involves civil rights in the State of: Texas,

My step mom pretty much rules the house hold and my father does nothing to stop her from treating me like a slave or talking down to me in front of my 5 year old son. Currently i tried to seek work outside the house, as my family owns a buisness making shirts, its pretty much all i do all day every day is work for them with no real form of pay. I Provide food stamps for my son and i, however they use them as they see fit. Im to pay 100 in rent each month, taken out of the work i do as pay. I have recently had to make a visit to a respit house for, Bipolar Depression, brought on by old events, but elevated by my step mom and dad constantly pushing me to my limits and then saying i bring it on my self. My son is now yelling at me and when i ask why, he says cause grandma and grandpa do it. If i refuse to work, or clean the whole house for them, or wait on them hand and foot, they say they will take my rites away and my son. Being as i have not had a job in years, and been living with them for 5 years, all my info states i live at this address. If i quit working for them, i plan to do so, i am positive i will be asked to leave, right then and there. My step mom has no real rights to the home as nothing is in her name, she even has her self regestered at another home else where. Everything is in my dads name. If i am to be kicked out, what all rights do i have and who should i call, or what do i need to do to get started fixing my life for my sons better. Currently, the abuse still hasnt stopped and is being documented and my doctor is trying to help me cope with new methods for keeping calm. All i want to do, give my son a better life, and im tired of them useing him to keep me as a slave. I currently had a talk with his teacher, his studies are slipping cause i cant read with him how i should be cause im in the shop too much and unable to give him the time he needs to grow. After witch, my family then hits me with more comments telling me im a bad father and such cause i dont spend more time with him. This isnt all either, can someone please help me?

You have a five-year-old child, so odds are you're legally an adult.

If you don't like living with your stepmother or the demands she places upon you as a resident of her home, move out.

If you're worried about being kicked out, find a job now and move before it happens.

And where is Mom? The child's, I mean.

Honestly? If you're over 18, perhaps it's time to move out on your own.

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Quoting darkdekage

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My question involves civil rights in the State of: Texas,

My step mom pretty much rules the house hold and my father does nothing to stop her from treating me like a slave or talking down to me in front of my 5 year old son. Currently i tried to seek work outside the house, as my family owns a buisness making shirts, its pretty much all i do all day every day is work for them with no real form of pay. I Provide food stamps for my son and i, however they use them as they see fit. Im to pay 100 in rent each month, taken out of the work i do as pay. I have recently had to make a visit to a respit house for, Bipolar Depression, brought on by old events, but elevated by my step mom and dad constantly pushing me to my limits and then saying i bring it on my self. My son is now yelling at me and when i ask why, he says cause grandma and grandpa do it. If i refuse to work, or clean the whole house for them, or wait on them hand and foot, they say they will take my rites away and my son. Being as i have not had a job in years, and been living with them for 5 years, all my info states i live at this address. If i quit working for them, i plan to do so, i am positive i will be asked to leave, right then and there. My step mom has no real rights to the home as nothing is in her name, she even has her self regestered at another home else where. Everything is in my dads name. If i am to be kicked out, what all rights do i have and who should i call, or what do i need to do to get started fixing my life for my sons better. Currently, the abuse still hasnt stopped and is being documented and my doctor is trying to help me cope with new methods for keeping calm. All i want to do, give my son a better life, and im tired of them useing him to keep me as a slave. I currently had a talk with his teacher, his studies are slipping cause i cant read with him how i should be cause im in the shop too much and unable to give him the time he needs to grow. After witch, my family then hits me with more comments telling me im a bad father and such cause i dont spend more time with him. This isnt all either, can someone please help me?

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You're over 18 right? Move out. You don't have to stay there. Why would you subject your son to that or yourself?

Why are you letting them use YOUR food stamps? No. If they take your card and use your assistance without your permission that's illegal. I would report them.

Just move out. And that's bullshit you don't have time to help your son with schoolwork. I know a lot of single parents in worse positions than you that take care of their kids.

https://singlemotherguide.com/financ...hers-in-texas/

http://www.singlemoms.org/assistance-in-texas/

http://www.singleparentadvocate.org/

https://www.aidforsinglemothers.net/...mothers-texas/

Try those links. Go to a shelter and see if they have any local resources in your town to help you. I wouldn't stay there one more day if I was you.

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Quoting darkdekage

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My question involves civil rights in the State of: Texas,

My step mom pretty much rules the house hold and my father does nothing to stop her from treating me like a slave or talking down to me in front of my 5 year old son. Currently i tried to seek work outside the house, as my family owns a buisness making shirts, its pretty much all i do all day every day is work for them with no real form of pay. I Provide food stamps for my son and i, however they use them as they see fit. Im to pay 100 in rent each month, taken out of the work i do as pay. I have recently had to make a visit to a respit house for, Bipolar Depression, brought on by old events, but elevated by my step mom and dad constantly pushing me to my limits and then saying i bring it on my self. My son is now yelling at me and when i ask why, he says cause grandma and grandpa do it. If i refuse to work, or clean the whole house for them, or wait on them hand and foot, they say they will take my rites away and my son. Being as i have not had a job in years, and been living with them for 5 years, all my info states i live at this address. If i quit working for them, i plan to do so, i am positive i will be asked to leave, right then and there. My step mom has no real rights to the home as nothing is in her name, she even has her self regestered at another home else where. Everything is in my dads name. If i am to be kicked out, what all rights do i have and who should i call, or what do i need to do to get started fixing my life for my sons better. Currently, the abuse still hasnt stopped and is being documented and my doctor is trying to help me cope with new methods for keeping calm. All i want to do, give my son a better life, and im tired of them useing him to keep me as a slave. I currently had a talk with his teacher, his studies are slipping cause i cant read with him how i should be cause im in the shop too much and unable to give him the time he needs to grow. After witch, my family then hits me with more comments telling me im a bad father and such cause i dont spend more time with him. This isnt all either, can someone please help me?

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Where is your son's other parent? I'm asking for a very specific reason.

also as for the not haveing time, I really dont. when i say every waking moment is work, i dont mean that as a joke or over exadurate. They litteraly put me to work every waking moment of the day and night with dead lines that are imposable to do on time but somehow i manage to get it done by the skin of my teeth. so not BS, but reality, there isnt any time. The only time i have free is day time, that he is at school for. He isnt home til 4pm or later, so i dont see him til 2 hours before bed. I may get that time to him or ordered to go into the shop just outside and work til his bed time, give him a bath, then bed, then back to work til 5 am, then get him read and on the bus at 6 to 7, then sleep, wake up again 3, reclaim screens with make shift tools, and wait for his bus, then print more stuff. Screen printing incase you want to know. I do it alone, they make the deals, the graphics, the money, i do the rest and get pretty close to nothing, and their laundry, dishes, floors, windows, water the plants, mop, sweep, feed the dogs, clean the shop, reclaim screens, coat screens, dry screens, do more dishes, rearrange stock, count stock, order stock, pack items sold, burn screens, print more items, unpack the truck, re pack the truck, and so forth. I even clean the yard. So when i say i dont have time cause they make me do all this, i mean it. But i am quiting for my son tonight, so i need some info on what to do next. As for his mom, she is missing, on her own will. She has been gone for many years, then came back into his life last year, now she is missing again. However we are working on a divorce and my attorney seen her recently, so we are not sure whats going on. I cant just go get work. I want to so bad, a real job flipping burgers is far better then this. I dont care if i got to push carts for walmart all day or work in a warehouse til i die, i would love it. I wasnt raised to be lazy. The closest location for jobs around my location is 15 min driving through country side roads. I have no car of my own, and my step mom took away the car as soon as she found out i was looking for work outside the buisness. There are no sidewalks, no transit, no means to go find work. If i got a job, i wouldnt be able to keep it as they would see fit to make sure i didnt get to it on time or at all. Personal problem really. As for living here, im supposed to pay 100 a month, and food, thats all. But they threaten to take my son if i dont do the rest. With no real job and a past of loseing my other kids long ago for reason i was blind to, involved his mom and drugs, unaware, they could do so ez. I am an adult, 31, i only lived here 5 years, i had my own place many times, im no freeloader, i like to work, but not with this kinda abuse. Aside from the bed bugs, my step mom is really the only problem here, however if i dont move out, i cant fix the problem. I just need to know if there is anything i can do in the laws of texas that can help me move forward and get out of the hole im currently stuck in. I dont live here by choice, if i had one, it wouldnt have ever to been moving here, ever.

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Quoting darkdekage

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also as for the not haveing time, I really dont. when i say every waking moment is work, i dont mean that as a joke or over exadurate. They litteraly put me to work every waking moment of the day and night with dead lines that are imposable to do on time but somehow i manage to get it done by the skin of my teeth. so not BS, but reality, there isnt any time. The only time i have free is day time, that he is at school for. He isnt home til 4pm or later, so i dont see him til 2 hours before bed. I may get that time to him or ordered to go into the shop just outside and work til his bed time, give him a bath, then bed, then back to work til 5 am, then get him read and on the bus at 6 to 7, then sleep, wake up again 3, reclaim screens with make shift tools, and wait for his bus, then print more stuff. Screen printing incase you want to know. I do it alone, they make the deals, the graphics, the money, i do the rest and get pretty close to nothing, and their laundry, dishes, floors, windows, water the plants, mop, sweep, feed the dogs, clean the shop, reclaim screens, coat screens, dry screens, do more dishes, rearrange stock, count stock, order stock, pack items sold, burn screens, print more items, unpack the truck, re pack the truck, and so forth. I even clean the yard. So when i say i dont have time cause they make me do all this, i mean it. But i am quiting for my son tonight, so i need some info on what to do next

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Okay no one cares about that really. That's what you got out of ALL the posts? Smh.

Where is the boy's father? Is he active in his life or no?

I gave you links to read if you go look up to my first response. But obviously you ignored those.

Why have you put up with this for so long? No one has forced you to stay there. Once you turned 18 you should have left.

Please answer the question. Where is the other parent?

i am the father, i dont know where she is, and im not asking for your oppinion, i want to know my options. oh and there was more to the post, it just didnt send the first part, you only read the second part.

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Quoting darkdekage

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i am the father, i dont know where she is, and im not asking for your oppinion, i want to know my options. oh and there was more to the post, it just didnt send the first part, you only read the second part.

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Excuse me?

Go pay an attorney to deal with your attitude.