Ohio Emancipation Law

[CaliforniaMom]

Well over half the teens think they know better than their parents! In 99% of those cases the teen was wrong!

Panther you're wrong.... 99.5% of them are wrong. I used to think I knew more than my parents and needed to do "what's right for me" too....









Then I became a parent and grew the heck up.

[panther10758]

Off by .4% not too bad

[shelleydavidson]

it might not be in the form of an actual mother or a father...it could be your best friend..or your future spouse...i didnt mean to offend you if that is how you took it. i just meant that someone loves you and you need to find them. god doesnt put you on this earth all by yourself.

[jojo4]

And last I checked, God never intended for a future spouse (which you don't have at this point. You are a little girl with a fantasy) to take the place of a parent. That would be on sick relationship. Nor did God ever intend for someone with good parents (by your admission) to go out and search for new ones. Honestly, you sound like a child trying to sound like a grown up.

[2poor2pay]

You don't know how lucky you are to have a good home that is safe and parents that love you. The fact that you disagree is natural and not at all unusual for your age group. Believe it or not they probably want whats best for you. If the guy really loves you he WILL wait. If he is encouraging you to leave your family he more than likely just isn't worth it. You have only known him for a short time. Have you considered giving the situation the test of time to make sure it is real before taking a chance of making a possible mistake? If you don't take the necessary time you could pay for it the rest of your life. If your future with him produced children than they may also have to pay for your mistake. Do yourself a favor and think this over some more. If he really loves you he will take the time to get to know your family you deserve that much respect from him at the very least.

[turbowray]

Honey, if he truely loves you, and you love him, then you can spend this time to learn to be the best of friends, with sex totally out of the picture. Alot of people these days, have sex, then when the "honeymoon" feeling is gone, they don't know what else they have in common that can keep them together for the rest of thier lives. This is where these two years can help. I must remind you, that if you try to leave your parents, to be with him, they can obtain a retraining order against him, to keep him from you until you are 18, it has been done many times before. Keep your family, and keep him to, by waiting until you are 18. Patience for all the right reasons, is the first step to womanhood. Prove that you are a grown woman in the making, by making choices that you will never regret. If you don't wait and something happens, your parents and everyone else will say, I told you so. Don't hear those words, if you wait, then if it goes wrong, at least your parents can respect the fact, that you respected them for being good parents, by not jipping them of the last two years they have to be your parents. Thanks for your honesty here. Please tell me you will wait until you are 18 to have sex?? Promise yourself, if you don't, that you will use protection (both of you!), so if anything happens, children are not included in a break up.