17-Year-Old Daughter

I have a 17 year old daughter who turns 18 in October. She ran away last October the day after her birthday. Her boyfriend and his parents helped her. The police found her and made her come home. We have not let her date him since that time. Now she is starting up again about being with him. We know that it is not in her best interest to be with this person. She wants us to emancipate her, but we do NOT want to do this. It would mean her living with the boyfriend and his parents, she only works 20 hours a week, has no drivers license. She is not capable of handling the problems that come with being on her own. The problem is that she lied to the boyfriend, his parents and said she is mistreated and abused just because she has chores, and has a curfew, and gets grounded for bad grades (due to the fact that she blows off her schoolwork). The sad part about all of it is that they believe her. There are no rules in their household and their kids run all over them. My husband and I have other children in the house and this is getting so hard to deal with. We live across the street from each other and they are always trying to start something. I don't know what to do with this whole situation. Can someone please give me some answers???

Make her get a full-time job and support herself 100%.

THAT is emancipation.

That's what I have been trying to tell her. She is not responsible at all. She is very lazy. She also has told the boyfriends mother that she hates me. All because we have rules and consequences for breaking those rules. Also, the boyfriends mother keeps starting stuff with me, saying hurtful things to me. I know that they are not true, but it cuts like a knife in my heart when I hear it. My daughter lies so much that I don't even know when to believe her. She started acting this way when she started dating him last summer and has gotten worse. He tells her she doesn't have to listen to us. The only reason she wants to be emancipated is to be with him.

She cannot be emancipated without your permission. Nor is there a judge anywhere in the US that will emancipate a minor teen so that she can go live with her boyfriend.