Help! Need parental emancipation-abuse.

What is the name of your state? NJ

A seventeen year-old young man is being literally imprisoned by his parents. He has four months until he is eighteen. However, the abuse he is enduring willl most definitely affect him long after. His parents have gotten the police involved simply because he went over his girlfriend's house. He is involved in nothing illegal. They are simply mad because he does not enjoy spending time with them and will not be attending college. They demand that he go nowhere outside of his city, he cannot use the telephone, computer, or TV - and they are constantly verbally abusive, putting him down,etc.

The police did nothing but call "crisis intervention" which simply forced him into doing family therapy. nothing has changed. He is becoming extremely depressed and angry. He used to go to church, volunteer at a nursing home a city away, and he had a job. However he can no longer do any of this because they are outside of the city he lives in.

I feel a major injustice has occured. Please help.
Sorry for not being brief, I felt it took some explaining.

[stealth2]

NJ doesn't have a statute for emancipation of a minor.

So then what happens? He is just forced to endure this inhumane abuse?

[enjay]

Unless CPS deems it necessary to put him in foster care, then yes, for the next 4 months he must abide by the rules of the house and then he is free to live his life wherever and however he chooses.

Is it me or should something be done about cases like this? It just doesnt seem justifiable to me...that a person, whether they're a minor or not, should have to go through something like that..whether its for a year, four months, or a week..

[enjay]

You are too close to this situation to see it clearly. By what you wrote, it seems that this is a battle of wills. The parents disagreed with something their minor child did, so they imposed some strict rules. It's not abusive to restrict a child to the home or to take away the telephone, computer and television. The verbal abuse may be real, or it may just be them expressing an opinion that their 17 year old disagrees with.

4 months is nothing, then he's free to do what he wants.

The verbal abuse is most definitely real. I understand that it is certainly legal for a parent to punish their child - but basically putting them on house arrest for four months, I'm not sure I can agree with that. As for the emotional abuse, it is at an extreme. They basically tell this kid he doesn't deserve to live. And that "God hates him". The problem is that these people are mentally disturbed and the legal system does nothing to prevent them from damaging their child mentally. It just doesnt make sense to me ,thats all.