My question involves emancipation laws for the State of:Mississippi
I am 15 years old, and I am seven and a half months pregnant. I regularly reside with my mother and my step-father, but whom I consider to be my real father because my father is not in my life, and has been there for me for thirteen years, and my eleven year old sister and sixteen year old brother. My mother recently became addicted to cocaine, and exhibiting, to be frank, an insanely irresponsible and completely crazy behavior, obviously. She'd leave my brother at work hours after he'd gotten off for somebody else to pick up. She'd leave us at home and by ourselves a lot, and then, she just stopped coming home. Now, my step-father is a really good guy, and wants to help, and tries his best to keep this family together. But, recently he's been exhibiting a strange behavior, as well. He doesn't eat or sleep because he's stressed over when she'll be coming home, and he goes out and looks for her, leaving us to do whatever, and then not even calling to check up. Recently, he's been talking about killing himself and restarting old habits, such as smoking again, which is really bad for me, because I'm pregnant, and it's really not even good for any of us. He completely abandons his job and us, all for her. He's become incapable of taking care of us, and this scares me. And, he has no place to put us, because he bought a one-bedroom apartment and his parents, our grandparents, took us in. They want to get full custody of us, and are trying to, and they do take good care of us. But..with me about to have a child, I've thought about it, and my parents aren't able to take care of me, and I am very self-sufficient as it is. I don't want somebody else to be able to pick up my child or sign my child up for stuff, and I certainly have lost all hope with somebody else having control over me. I know that I could handle everything. I'm not saying that I want to move out of my grandparent's house, or anything like that. I'm saying that I want to be my own person, and be able to sign my child up for things myself, and to sign myself up for the things that I need to. I'm not trying to get out of being controlled by somebody, or having to listen to anybody, I really just want to do it for my child's sake. I have no problem getting a job or anything, if that's what I have to do. In fact, I'd rather do that, so that I can save for a car, and then file for a hardship license so that I can take my child to all his appointments, or take him to daycare and what not. I just want to be able to be my own person and take care of my own documents and what not. Am I able to do this, given my situation?


