My Boyfriend Isn't Safe And Needs Help Being Emancipated

i need help my boyfriend wants to be emancipated from his grandparents thay are mentally abusive ant treat him and his brother like crap. He is 16 and isn't sure if his grandparents even have custody because every year on his and his brothers birthday they have to fill out a legal document of some sort. Three years ago his mother died and his grandmother cut off all ties from his fathers side of the family. His father doesn't even know that his mother passed away. He wants out but doesn't know what to do. I'm 18 and want to do anything to help him and his brother escape the misery that they face everyday. My boyfriend has to share a room with his thirty eight year old dug addict uncle and is continually ridiculed on a daily basis by his grandfather. His Brother is continually ridiculed by his grandmother. THis past weekend the brother had a searious medical issua and my mother who is a nurse told him he needed to go to the ER his grandmother refused because she didn't want to wait in line and because he had a physical schedualed monday (this was saturday) I don't think this is the safest enviornmnet for them/ I need help to help them. please any advice would be amazing

Emy
Colorado

Does your boyfriend have a job?

he doesn't have a job because they won't allow him to. He has to beg to even go outside at his house to the get a soda from the garage.

What do they think of a 16 year old boy having a 18 year old girlfriend?

His grandmother loves me he'll be seventeen in september and i just turned 18 april 30th. HIs Grandfather on hte other hand doesn't really know about me. He's from algeria and follows all of the customs includes there beliefs in how they treat women. My boyfriend doesn't want me to meet him because he doesn't believe that his grandfather deserves it.

Your boyrfriend will be 18 in two years and if he does good in school and applies himself he may be able to go to college and get away from them then. Just wait and be a blessing to his burdened life. What is a two year sentence in grandparent hell I mean home to a lifetime and a good future away from them?

Actually he's a year ahead in school and right after his graduation next year (2008) Were moving intogeterh. We're hoping htat in sepetember they might let him move out as they did his mother and is uncle at 17. I still live wiht my mother and she knows his situation so she would is more then willing to open our door to him. I'm just seariously afraid that they won't let go. We believe that the only reason his grandfather is with his grandmother is to stay in this country. HE cheats on her. His 38 year old uncle who can't keep a job shares a room with him and is a known drug addict. J. even found a crack pipe in thier room. He wants to contact his father but isn't allowed to. He isn't allowed to talk to anyone from that side of the family. He seariously wants out before he goes crazy because he cannot stand beign treated like less then human anymore

Why not report this all to child protective services? Curtainly being exposed to a drug addict and being treated bad my the grandparents isn't a good situation for any child. You don't have to give a name just call in and tell them who they are and where they live.

I don't want them to end up in a foster home. They've dealt with alot in the past few years. Three years ago there mother died of cancer and there father jsut got out of prison tow years ago and they have no contact with him. I don't want them to end up worse off

I haven't looked for the emancipation laws, if there even are any, in Colorado, but I can tell you this much without looking (because it is inherent in the definition);

If he does not have a job; if he does not have the means of supporting himself, there is no such thing as emancipation. That's what emancipation MEANS; that he is not only capable of self-support, that he IS self-supporting.

Despite what so many of you kids think, emancipation was never intended to be means to get you out of the house. It was intended to provide legal protection to minors who, for whatever reason, were ALREADY living on their own.

When he is 18 (NOT when he graduates) he can live wherever he likes. Until then, his choices are to put up, wait until his legal guardian gives him permission to leave, or to contact CPS and see if they will take him out of the house. Emancipation is NOT an option.