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    Default Almost 18 and Pregnant, Emotionally Abused by Mother

    My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Kansas

    I'm 2 months away from being 18 and I'm a month pregnant. My mother has been yelling at me to the point that I breake down in tears and has me stressing a lot. Which could cause me to loose the baby. I have a job and pay my own phone bill. I have a car and wen I drove it i paid my insurance ( I haven't been driving it since my insurance was dropped for backing into a car.) I pay for my own clothes and what not. I cureently work where I only make about 200 dollars a week . So at the moment I couldn't afford my own place (that is if I'm renting and not in low income housing). I will start a job in august where ill make 300-400 dollars every two weeks. Although I'm really wanting to get emancipated asap due to how my mother treats me and ill be 18 in two months anyways . My mom would never let me get emancipated just by her signature. Until I could get my own place I have a friend who I could stay with. How hard would it be to get emancipated.? And if so the father of my baby is 22 could my mom file statutary rape against him.?

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    Default Re: Almost 18 and Pregnant Emotionally Abused by Mother

    By the time you file a petition and get a court date, odds are you'll already be 18. And sorry, no judge is going to find that a pregnant teen earning only $200 per week can support herself independently.

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    Default Re: Almost 18 and Pregnant Emotionally Abused by Mother

    It would be impossible to be emancipated. Courts do not emancipate minors because of how their parents treat them; they emancipate minors (in the very, very, very rare instances that they do so - the overwhelmingly large majority of minors who petition for emancipation are denied) on the basis that the minor is ALREADY living independently from their parents and supporting themselves. You do not live independently and you do not have the means to support yourself - therefore, emancipation is quite off the table. You're stuck where you are until you're 18. Being pregnant doesn't give you any special rights. OF COURSE your mother is yelling at you - what mother whose 17 year old daughter came home pregnant wouldn't yell? Even if you did have the means to support yourself, that's a LONG way from a valid reason for emancipation.

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    Default Re: Almost 18 and Pregnant, Emotionally Abused by Mother

    If my daughter had been stupid enough to get knocked up with someones bastard before she turned 18 I would be yelling at her also. Further, unless she shut her mouth and did what I told her, I would throw her out on her arse, when she was 18.That is not grounds for emancipation. The 22 year old would be up on felony charges.

    21-3516: Sexual exploitation of a child. (a) Sexual exploitation of a child is:

    (1) Except as provided in subsection (a)(5), employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing or coercing a child under 18 years of age to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of promoting any performance;

    (2) possessing any visual depiction, including any photograph, film, video picture, digital or computer generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical or other means, where such visual depiction of a child under 18 years of age is shown or heard engaging in sexually explicit conduct with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires or appeal to the prurient interest of the offender, the child or another;

    (3) being a parent, guardian or other person having custody or control of a child under 18 years of age and knowingly permitting such child to engage in, or assist another to engage in, sexually explicit conduct for any purpose described in subsection (a)(1) or (2);

    (4) except as provided in subsection (a)(6), promoting any performance that includes sexually explicit conduct by a child under 18 years of age, knowing the character and content of the performance;

    (5) employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing or coercing a child under 14 years of age to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of promoting any performance; or

    (6) promoting any performance that includes sexually explicit conduct by a child under 14 years of age, knowing the character and content of the performance.

    (b) As used in this section:

    (1) "Sexually explicit conduct" means actual or simulated: Exhibition in the nude; sexual intercourse or sodomy, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital or oral-anal contact, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; masturbation; sado-masochistic abuse for the purpose of sexual stimulation; or lewd exhibition of the genitals, female breasts or pubic area of any person.

    (2) "Promoting" means procuring, selling, providing, lending, mailing, delivering, transferring, transmitting, distributing, circulating, disseminating, presenting, producing, directing, manufacturing, issuing, publishing, displaying, exhibiting or advertising:

    (A) For pecuniary profit; or

    (B) with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire or appeal to the prurient interest of the offender, the child or another.

    (3) "Performance" means any film, photograph, negative, slide, book, magazine or other printed or visual medium, any audio tape recording or any photocopy, video tape, video laser disk, computer hardware, software, floppy disk or any other computer related equipment or computer generated image that contains or incorporates in any manner any film, photograph, negative, photocopy, video tape or video laser disk or any play or other live presentation.

    (4) "Nude" means any state of undress in which the human genitals, pubic region, buttock or female breast, at a point below the top of the areola, is less than completely and opaquely covered.

    (c) Except as provided further, sexual exploitation of a child is a severity level 5, person felony. Sexual exploitation of a child as described in subsection (a)(5) or (a)(6) when the offender is 18 years of age or older is an off-grid person felony.

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