Hello. Ok. Here is my situation. I'm almost 17. I've been living in hellish situations pretty much my whole life. Its been bad for the past three years. My dad starting dating a woman at work. Cheating on my mom. They started fighting and arguing bunches. Lots of drinking was involved. My dad was very abusive towards my mom. He has pulled her down the hallway by our bedrooms by the hair ripping out hand fulls, HAND FULLS of hair. My siblings and I use to have to sleep with our shoes on just in case my dad pushed things to far and we would have to get help. One night things got way bad. They were fighting pushing each other, my dad choking my mom, things were thrown and broken. My mom picked up a knife, and ended stabbing herself in the side with the knife. I called my grandparents, they called the police. Not much was done about it. My parents had to take classes and stuff but it really hasn't done much good. My dad has choked, stabbed, put a gun to my mothers head, but she keeps putting herself and me and my younger siblings into his house hold. He moves in and out when he pleases. My mom has recently been to a womans shelter because of him, but just moved herself and my two younger siblings back into his house. My sister and I do not wish to live with these conditions any longer. I currently do not live at home. I live with my boyfriend and his parents that way I could finish school. I have finished school. I have a job. But my mom keeps threatening to move me back to where they live and I do not wish to live in these situations any longer. There has been incidents where he has taken her out to fields and has beaten her. He has dis-membered her cars so she isn't able to leave the house. Also she isn't able to keep a stable home and provide necessary things for my siblings and Me. I have been out of school for about a year to help her business which is ruined every time my dad comes back. I'd help her build her business and we would do fine until they started contacting each other again. We have been evicted from about 6 rental houses because she wasn't able to pay the rent. When we have money she often loans my dad money and doesn't get paid back. He has a baby which is in questioned to be his or not with the woman he cheated on my mom with for the past three years. My mom goes over to help support this baby which we don't even know if its his or not rather then making sure my siblings and her had a roof and food for themselves. My younger sister is not in school and hasn't been in school for about a school year now. My mom is making her work for her for her business and will not help my sister get back into or keep her in a town long enough to make friends and go to school. My little brother is in school. There is so much more. I just want to know if I'm able to become emancipated and I need to know what it takes to make sure my siblings are ok. Would my sister be able to emancipate? Would I be able to take on custody of my younger siblings? How do I need to prove that I can make it on my own?