they cant do anything. all you have to do is say youre leaving and theres nothing they can do about it. youll never have to follow another rule in your life! its so cool! you can hang out with your friends til 3am and do drugs and not go to school and youre totally free!!
Actually until a person is 18 and a legal adult the parents are responsible for the minor's actions and therfore have legal say over the child. Unless you emancipate yourself you are under your parents rule. They can call the cops and have them drag your runaway self home. Not that anything would or could really be done, or the cops even try to find you. One thing I find teenagers seem to forget is that we the parents are liable for your actions. If a teenager vandalizes someones home the home owner can go to the parent for restitution. Give it a break. At 15 you are not exactly prepared to take care of yourself.
if you do that, hope they are nothing like my parants. cause if they are, once you get back they would say your out of control and they cant handle you. they might send you to a place where kids go who are REALLY out of control. like kids who beat their parants and break windows in their house and shit. my parants were gonna send me to one because i smoke weed and got busted. it was rediculus their reason and i was so fucking close to going. but i convinced them to give me another chance and to forgive and forget. so i had to settel with living at my dads and waste my summer. so my advice, dont run away. no matter how much you hate your parents, no matter how selfish, hypocritical(sp?), how verbally abusive they are. just try to stick it out. you only have 3 more years. same with me. try and get your parants to go to counceling with you. then you can confront them with things that they normally wouldnt listen to and would ignore you. but if the counselor is there, they have to listen.
My parents threatened to send me to a school like that, a boarding school an hour and a half from here that's pretty much just a town with various dormitories and houses with "dorm parents," always a very religious, strict family, often with children of their own. My friend from 3rd grade's parents became dorm parents there. But the worst part about being threatened was their reasoning. I was a problem child, I really was, I constantly skipped school, faked being sick, so on and so on, but I actually was in a very very bad state of depression and obsessive complusive disorder. I'd go to school, stay until 9:30 when they took role, then I'd convince someone to sign me out because I had to check things at home. They thought getting me my own cat would help, but it made things worse because I was constantly obsessing over keeping her safe that I'd find myself in absolute tears. Anyway, I've really had some major issues with them since then because I felt like they were just giving up on me. Why do some parents just...give up? I wasn't violent, I wasn't disrespectful, the only thing I did was avoid school or any situation that kept me out of the house for too long. Anyway, to the original poster, if you run away, you're just causing yourself much more trouble than you already have. If you've got a good reason to flee, and real bonafide abuse is the only good reason, flee to a police station or a respected elder so that they can take legal action and keep you safe. But you're 15, chances are good you just don't like to accept you're still a child. It's an awkward stage, but you'll realize the moment you graduate high school, even at 18, you don't feel truly ready to leave. Now, everyone is different, but really, if you're mature enough to survive on your own, you're mature enough to realize there are consequences for every action and it's tough out in the real world. Sorry to be another downer, but you came to the wrong place if you're looking for encouragement to run away.
you could run away to another family member, my cousin having a custody battle and she ran awayfrom her father and is staying with my aunt, but if bad enouph to kill yourslef try runing away before suicide
Your 15 sweetie!! your problems go with you wherever you may flee running away isn't that simple. Maybe sitting down with the parent or parents would be a good idea. I had a so so relationship being able to cope bond with my parents but i HAD TO sit down and talk with them about what i needed from them and you give that back as well love respect etcdo you need encouragement? Give it back even though they are your parents. I know i'm female, but i played football, ball, basketball w/ my dad i thought that , that was a cool idea (not to mention that dad did some women things to , but i don't think he would crochet)lol But i just wanted to throw a few pointers out of you. BTw do you have any brothers or Sisters?
Dude, if you were only planning to run away "for a few days" is it really worth it? Everyone will see that you're just doing it for attention and surely the aftermath won't be worth it. Think about what you'd be putting the parentals through! The world doesn't just revolve around you, afterall.
You my want to run away cause of a problem but it is there waiting for you when you come back.. And plus you are not 18 so you can get into big big trouble. Your parents will have to file a missing persons report and it is just not worth the time and pain to run away for a little bit. just talk to your parents they are not as bad as you think they are!
to the original poster: if you are having problems at home, it is far better to talk to another trusted adult, like a counselor at school, rather than just running away. are you in an abusive situation? if so, talking to someone at school will help get you out. if you are not in an abusive situation but are having issues with your family, a counselor at school might be able to hook your family up with some mediated counseling to help work out your problems. if you parents are loving and care for you, it'll only worry them and make them upset if you run away - it won't solve anything. family is all you've got in this world, if they're a good family. try to work it out while you're young to avoid problems down the road...it just isn't worth it.
