My state is California. My brother who is seventeen years old was put into a men's home, that's sort of a rehab for people just coming out of jail. He has never been in jail. The only reason he is in there is because our mother feels that he is disobedient. He has missed a whole year of school because of this. She has legal custody of him, so she was able to make the decision to have him there. He ran away from the place a few days ago. Will he or I get into any legal trouble if he stays with me? Isn't it illegal for kids to be out of school? the men's home doesn't have a program for youth yet and there are about four juveniles in it. Can we use that fact that she helped to keep him out of school against her so she can't have legal custody over him?
Our mother also has a tendency to let our older adult brothers, who are violent and have been in and out of jail, come over and "punish us", by abusing us. That's part of the reason I moved out. He is not being a disobedient kid, he just doesn't want to deal with the abuse anymore. We have other younger siblings and don't want to pull the family apart, but he doesn't want to live with her anymore. Since emancipation won't work, what will?
Our mother also has a tendency to let our older adult brothers, who are violent and have been in and out of jail, come over and "punish us", by abusing us. That's part of the reason I moved out. He is not being a disobedient kid, he just doesn't want to deal with the abuse anymore. We have other younger siblings and don't want to pull the family apart, but he doesn't want to live with her anymore. Since emancipation won't work, what will?
