What is the name of your state? Ohio.
Her mother is somewhat unstable and reported to be a drug-addict, forced to take care of three children: a male in his twenties, the only of the lot to turn out all right; another male in his twenties, this one permanently brain-damaged and crippled after he was electrocuted at work some five years ago; and her, a seventeen-year-old closet-bisexual. Recently, however, her mother stumbled upon her girlfriend and now has decided to confine her to their house until she turns eighteen -- in ten months. Apparently her mother has a tendancy toward verbal abuse, and the girl herself has already (supposedly) attempted suicide because of the woman.
Our shared friends are trying to convince her to run away and move in with them -- the standard teenage let's-help-my-friend scenario. Wouldn't this make their parents liable for fines and/or time in prison? And isn't emancipation more or less out of the question if this is the extent of the severity of the situation? Also, we have the misfortune to live in the corner of No and Where, alienated from any remotely useful church, and our teachers seem to make things messier the instant they get involved.
So, what can she do and what can we do to help her?
Her mother is somewhat unstable and reported to be a drug-addict, forced to take care of three children: a male in his twenties, the only of the lot to turn out all right; another male in his twenties, this one permanently brain-damaged and crippled after he was electrocuted at work some five years ago; and her, a seventeen-year-old closet-bisexual. Recently, however, her mother stumbled upon her girlfriend and now has decided to confine her to their house until she turns eighteen -- in ten months. Apparently her mother has a tendancy toward verbal abuse, and the girl herself has already (supposedly) attempted suicide because of the woman.
Our shared friends are trying to convince her to run away and move in with them -- the standard teenage let's-help-my-friend scenario. Wouldn't this make their parents liable for fines and/or time in prison? And isn't emancipation more or less out of the question if this is the extent of the severity of the situation? Also, we have the misfortune to live in the corner of No and Where, alienated from any remotely useful church, and our teachers seem to make things messier the instant they get involved.
So, what can she do and what can we do to help her?