My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: New York
I am an out of state resident. I currently live with my mother and step father. As long as I have lived with them there has always been verbal, physical and mental abuse and just within the past couple of years there has been inappropriate actions done by step father, per say opening shower curtain to speak with me and intentionally grabbing me as he walked by. I am embarrassed to speak of this to anyone and I have never made an outburst about the abuse before. However I have been dating this guy for the past couple of months and he took note of the bruises and asked how i recieved them. He has since pushed me to seek help. I went to family first and none of them believe my mother is capable of this. Next I went to social services and my step father contacted the cops, who are relatives of his, and now they dont believe me and when the social worker came out the cop told them that I am making everything up and its been a few weeks and nothing has happened so Im begining to think they dont believe me. The same cop also told me that my parents can do whatever they want to me until I turn 18 because Im underage, my boyfriend told me this isnt true. I have talked to another adult about this situation and he told me that I should get emancipated, however when I contacted a local attorney they said thats only in the case of underage pregnant girls in our state and I dont want to become pregnant just so I can be free. However I read that in New York you can go there and live and get a job and a place to stay and live in a youth shelter until I am able to support myself fully. I used to have a job but every since I got the police involved things have gone downhill. My parents called into my work and told them that I would no longer be working there, they threatened that I cant leave even after Im 18 and will put me in a mental instatute if I try to leave. I think I should run away and get away from this, Im so scared and the abuse has only gotten worse and now my step father is also involved in the physical abuse and they hit me in places that dont show bruising, example hit me in my stomach, pull me by my hair, slammed me into a wall. I dont feel that the police would help at all considering my step father has them in his pocket and with all the lies my parents twist up I dont think Id stand a chance in our states court even if I could take it that far. Also Im very worried that they are going to try to put me into a psych ward as threatened and then forever have control of me as stated. I think that no one believes me because they come off as great people and concerned parents to everyone and only I see the real side of them and recently my boyfriend when he heard them on the phone now believes me. I want to get a job, be safe and start into college as soon as possible. Im 17 and I would stick it out but its become unbearable and I have 8 more months left until Im 18 which with the way things are going I could end up not ebing able to leave then either. Im not just another teenager who hates their parents and wants to get away from the control and be 'free' I just dont want the abuse and since social seervices wont help and I dont want to be housed as a looney when Im not. So some help please and advice.