I am a 17 year old female, I live in Virginia, and my biological parents have been divorced since I was 5 and they have remarried, my mothers husband of 7 years, when he gets mad, and he starts arguing with either my mom or me, he hits, and there has been twice that he has tryed to choke me, he fights with my mom and I try to pull him offa her and he will push me or hit me... and I am scared to live here, becuase im scared of when he might get mad again and start beating on me and my mom again. His son lives here too, at which he gets treated like a prince, and I get treated like crap. My mother makes me cook and clean all the time, im like everybodies personal slave, I have had several mental breakdowns in school, when I was in school, and I had 3 suicide spells of trying to kill myself becuase of the household I was living in and I was referred to professional psychological help. My mom wont take me becuase shes scared that I will tell something that she doesnt want me to say such as what happens with my stepdad. My dad and his wife of 8 years, just recently filed for a divorce and he will be unable to financially support me living there too, becuase hes got to get a smaller house for him and my two brothers and my 8 month old sister, and he wont be able to support me being there too, and I wont have my own room or anything. I want to legally move out, but I dont know how to go about doing it without getting in trouble. I am 17 now, and will be 18 in september, which is only about 3 months away. Would I get in trouble for moving out now without having to go through emancipation? Sorry its too long, but its alot of information, becuase its all the reasons that I cant be here.

