what are my rights as a 16 year old liveing at home?

[Megyog]

i am 16 and 17 in feb, my mum keeps getting the police to come and get me when i try to leave home! i have a big file with social services and the police i just want to know even with my vaunrable history can i still leave home without resistance from my mother?

[AlBags]

You went down a similar route .. Ummmm I take it.

[Nosha123]

Yes Ummm true...

Hopefully their circumstances - both financial and otherwise mean they can give her the support she clearly needs.

My husbands family background was awful - so I understand that Megyog feels she has to escape.. I just hope that she is mature enough to understand the seriousness of her decision and she isnt just a teenager out for attention... She doesnt sound like she is though!

i wish her luck!

[ummmm]

Yes...I left at 13. Not because of my Mum but because of her boyfriend. My Dad couldn't look after me because he worked away so much. I went to live with my Grand parents. Dad paid my board and sent me my school money every week. It turned out to be the best decision I ever made. I only have happy memories from the period of my life.

[jackthehat]

^And learned how to pull a decent pint.......;o)

[ummmm]

lol...I spent a lot of time with them anyway so learnt how to pull a decent pint when I was about 6. Grandad had me working by 14. I use to sit behind the bar doing my homework :-)

[Nosha123]

Ummm your story goes to prove that it can work.

[ummmm]

I've got a nice family. My Dad was brilliant...

They all hated my Mums boyfriend as well.

[Nosha123]

Ummm - how long was the boyfriend on the scene for??? After you left home??

[ummmm]

After I left...about 5 years I think. That's after he tried to kill her...

[Nosha123]

WOAH!!!!!!! Jees...

So I would surmise your gut feelings to hate the man were right then!!!

And hey say love is blind huh!!!

[ummmm]

He was a horrible bully but he was nice to her. He started to lose the plot when the relationship was coming to an end.

[Megyog]

see i can work and yes i am 16 i just want people honest point of view? thank you for so many nice comments and some i dont approve of but that is there thoughts i i like AIBags comments now there is someone who wants to help and many othere people like that on here i just need to get away from my mum i feel like a slave as i have said b4 and i will go some were safe and warm my dad wants me to go to a collage which i am doing now i am doing ok, i just want a fool proof way to move out and by law i can now i am 16 going on 17 in feb. xxxx