I'm in a bit of a difficult situation at home. The past few years have been hard for me, but it goes back alot further. My dad is in prison for a long time, my mom divorced him when he left. His side of the family doesn't like my mom and she doesn't like them, so it has been like a tug of war with me. I turned 16 in October now. The summer before last I had moved to Montana with my dad's sister, but it did not work out for me and I moved back with my mom in Feb of '07. At the time she was living in Mn, working there but fighting in court over the house in Wi we live in now. When I moved back with her in Feb, she got me into a public school in March, but I had trouble getting classes together since I had missed so much, and I got sick with something and was out of my new school for 2 weeks straight. I did not complete my 9th grade year. 10th grade I started an online school in Minnesota, which I am still enrolled in but not taking classes since it is online free for Minnesota residents. I did not complete very many classes that year because of how rough of a time it was. Now it is supposed to be my junior year in high school and I haven't taken any classes, I can't just enroll myself into a school. I'm registered as a homeschool student (I think) in Wisconsin. I really want to leave home because of how my mom has been. I do not have health insurance, haven't for a couple years. I actually miss going to the doctor and I need to go to the dentist but can't. I talked to my Grandma about it, but she is having a hard time trying to take care of my grandpa at home as long as possible and really cannot help me all the way out in Seattle. I'm wondering if there is any legal action that I can do in Wisconsin to get out on my own, or move with a relative in another state.
My whole family is spread across the country. I live in a very rural area, cannot drive yet and there aren't any local places to get a job if I could. I would really like to move some place *warmer*.

p.s. My mom kicked my oldest sister out at 15, she got married at 16, I don't want to get married. I feel almost like a woman in an abusive marriage though. I have no close family and my only "friends" are online, and I do not trust them or even let them know my real name. I feel like she cut me off from the world. :(

i am 16 and living in wisconsin. im not sure if emancipation is what i need, but i cannot live with either of my parents anymore. my parents are divorced and have been for almost around 4 years now. i used to live with my mother up until i was 13 but than my father got full custody of me when she tried to kill herself and ended up having to stay in multiple mental hospitals for over a period of months. i have now been living with my father for over 3 years and it has been going well up until october of 2008, last year when he ended up in a mental hospital and stayed there for around 2 weeks. since than i have had to manage many things for me and my dad such as making sure bills are paid, sometimes even paying for them, paying for the gas in the car my dad drives, and other expenses. he did not get bacc to work until last week, but im not even sure if it is permanent yet. help me i need to get out of this situation badly but i dont know how. my boyfriends mom and dad have been there for me through the thick and thin. they have offered many times to take me in if needed, the only problem is that they live in ohio, and my dad will not give consent to this because he says he will get locked up for letting me move there. what should i do? where should i go? everyday is so hard to face. please give me some opinions.

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