What Are My Rights

[n.satterley]

My question involves emancipation laws for the State of: Kentucky
I am 15, pregnant and i live in kentucky. the father of my unborn child is 18. I am fully aware that he could be arrested for stat. rape. He is paying for everything i need, and then some. However, my parents are trying to push him away and won't let me see him but twice a week. They are VERY controlling and will not give me any rights to make any decisions. They will not let him go to doctor's appointments and threaten to keep him out of the delivery room during our baby's birth. His parents were EXACTLY the same age when they had his brother. They were married on her 16th birthday. I would like to please know what rights I have at the hospital, home and outside of home.

[cbg]

You have the right to make your own decisions about your health care and that of your baby. (This does NOT include deciding who can come to the doctor's appointments - it means exactly what it says; medical care. Vitamins, exercise, c-section or natural birth, anesthetic or not, etc.) Other than that, you have the rights your parents choose to give you. Period.

I'll tell you a right you do NOT have.

You do NOT have the right to see, talk to, telephone, instant message, leave messages for on Facebook or Myspace, or in any other way contact (up to and including smoke signal and carrier pigeon) anyone that your parents do not give you permission to contact. It doesn't matter if he is paying for everything or if he is the father of the baby. Until you are 18, your parents have the legal right to control EVERY aspect of your life with the exception of the one named above.

Until AFTER the baby is born and paternity is legally established, your boyfriend has NO rights to see you or be present at doctor's appointments or the birth. AFTER paternity is established BY LAW, he can see the baby BUT NOT YOU unless your parents agree.

[divemedic]

Let me add that filing for paternity can get him prosecuted for the sex crime.

[n.satterley]

My boyfriend was 17 when i got pragnant. Can she move out if her parents let her get married. if getting married would that let her be able to do any thing that she wanted to do.

[aardvarc]

You were under 16 - he was older than 16 - putting him within the 5 year window to face 3rd degree sexual assault charges or misdemeanor charges for sexual misconduct. Just because they can't charge for the very specific offense of "statutory rape" doesn't mean that NO criminal charges can or would be applied. You didn't read far enough down to get to the part that says:

However, it is a misdemeanor to engage in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse with someone under 16 years of age regardless of the age of the defendant.

Bottom line is, that being under 16 at the time of the occurrance of the pregnancy BY DEFINITION makes your BF a criminal (unless you were married, which you weren't).

And the laws have changed a LOT, in a LOT of different areas since your parents were children. What counts for you is the set of laws on the books TODAY.

[n.satterley]

if wee get married will all of this go away can i still be charged. i want to go live with boy how is this posible At my house i have to take care of my brothers and sister. i never get to go anwhere while my brothers and sister get to go everywhere. i have to cook,clean,and do everything else.my dad curses at me and yells, sometimes makes my cry. i fell mentally adused my boy friend comes over and helps my dad around the house but that dont help. can you help. thanks

[aardvarc]

You won't be charged - your BF will. No, it won't change if you get married - the crime has already occurred.

Until you're 18, or emancipated (which you don't qualify for), you live where your parents allow you to live. Period.

Having to help family is part of life. Life isn't fair, and it really doesn't get any better as you get older or become a legal adult. Time to grow some thicker skin, otherwise life has a whole lot more badness in store for you (and by the way, you'll have to cook and clean regardless of where you live or who you live with, even if you live by yourself). That's not mental abuse - that's LIFE.

[cyjeff]

If I hear just one more pregnant teen complain about not being allowed out of the house.....

[n.satterley]

what do you think i shuold do i want to live with my boyfriend so i can go to a school where i can take my baby with me. what do you call it when i have two cleanout his toe nails and have to cut his hair. i have to get on my hands,clip his toes to.i have to fill his nails to. i even have to pull out the hair in his noise. what do you call that.

[divemedic]

what do you think i shuold do i want to live with my boyfriend so i can go to a school where i can take my baby with me.

There is nothing you CAN do. Despite the fact that you are breeding, you are still legally a CHILD. When your child is a teen, she will likely have the same laws in place- you are her parent, and what you say goes.

what do you call it when i have two cleanout his toe nails and have to cut his hair. i have to get on my hands,clip his toes to.i have to fill his nails to. i even have to pull out the hair in his noise. what do you call that.

Depends. If it is your child you doing this for, it is called parenting.

If it is your b/f you are doing this for, it is something else.