Originally Posted by the big lebowski

call up child services and ask.

Originally Posted by Sexy_Potatoe_with_an_E

Okay,here's the problem we have with calling child services, my friend technically left, but her parents have made no effort to find her, in fact she has kept contact with her brother who says that it's best she didn't come home and that her parents are moving away, so that she won't be able to come home if she wants to. Here's more background info, and by the way I'm not condoning my friends actions, but alot of the blame can be put on her parents. This isn't the first time she's left home, the first time she left home she was out for maybe three days, she never had they intent to leave but her parents can be over bearingly abusive to her and she needed to get out of the house. When she gets back she tells her parents she wants to work everything out she wants to make things better, they say okay we'll do whatever it takes, the next day things are like they had always been. She tries to kill herself, her parents put her psychiatric emergency 5 days is standard they left her there for 10 so they had to pay $1,500 per extra day, money they don't have, they send her to puerto rico to live with her aunt, btw she doesn't speak a word of spanish, but they don't want to deal with her, her aunt sends her back because my friend is an athiest and her aunt is a jehovahs witness, she refused to accept the faith so they sent her back. When she gets back her father kicks her ass, I mean punching kicking the whole nine and says "next time you decide to kill yourself let me know and I'll do it for you." I don't see my friend for almost a year because apparently I'm a bad influence, apparently I'm the one who told her to run away...she isn't aloud to leave the house except to go to school...her mom is having an affair concurrently, she and her brother tell her dad he doesn't believe them until he catches her in the act. Things change temporarily, her dad leaves for a while and tells my friend that he will take her with him, that as long as she is honest everything will be okay, report card day comes and she does terrible, he tells her that he doesn't want anything to do with her and that she's going to end up pregnant or dead or on drugs and he wants nothing to do with it. She leaves again and here we are. Updates from her brother reveal that her parents just went on vacation together despite the fact that her mom is still having an affair and they are going to move back in with eachother. I told you all this because I believe you have to prove that you're being physically or verbally abuse, verbal is much harder to prove, and the physical wasn't a constant but it did occur...I don't know if these circumstances will hold in court as an unbearable situation...