I Need To Get Emancipated In Washington

[panther10758]

A teacher or school counselor are all mandated reporters they should make call

[kella_hope]

My cousellor is helping me as much as she can, and I haven't seen her since the beginning of the semester (probably not a good thing). I really don't need any more emotional stress by being put in a foster home; I'm already under a lot being with my mom in the first place.

The other day, my mom and her boyfriend told me that no matter how much I look up things on emancipation, they absolutely WILL NOT let me go until I turn 18. I still don't think I can handle this for yet ANOTHER year.

[kella_hope]

Truth is, and I'm sure you experts hear about this all the time, but I'm scared out of my mind. I don't want things to get worse. I don't want her to drink so much that she eventually starts beating up on me. I just don't think that the foster care thing is going to work out for me.

Would they look for family first? Because I do have an aunt in Bellingham. She says I'm always welcome, but she has four kids and one of them is a teeny baby. I wouldn't feel right if she had to take care of a fifth.

I don't know, I'm just... scared.

[kella_hope]

Okay, so I had a fight with my mom last night. It wasn't like the rest of them, though. She was blaming me for failing our inspection (that isn't even happening for another few months) because my room is a disaster. I had just gotten back from doing my laundry and she told me that for once I should fold up my clothes and put them in my drawers. I told her I was doing that already. Then she started freaking out on me. So I just went back to my room and shut my door.

I called my boyfriend to tell him what was going on and in mid-sentence, she barged and and violently grabbed the phone away from me. I told her just how I really feel about her and kicked my door shut (that wasn't exactly smart on my part).

After some thinking, I grabbed my purse and went to my friend's mom house who lives in one of the surrounding units in the apartment complex I live in. I called my boyfriend from there and told him I was going to go back and get my backpack and walk to my friend's house. He told me to be careful and I left.

Back at my apartment, I put some clothes in my backpack and walked out. My mom told me I wasn't going anywhere and she grabbed my backpack and tried with every bit of strength she had (not very much obviously, because I never went back inside). We were screaming at each other in the hallway disturbing everyone in the other units. I was also screaming for someone to call the cops.

Finally one came and broke it up and gave me a ride to that friend's house. They saw how much my mom had been drinking last night and all the empty beer cases piled up in the kitchen.

Is this going to help me?

[cbg]

It might help get you put into foster care.

It won't help get you emancipated.

[panther10758]

As cbg notes abuse is not grounds for emancipation its grounds for a CPS abuse report. Their national hotline is...

1-800-4-A-CHILD