- Jurisdiction
- North Carolina
I am 16 years old and my mother is 31. My mom had me while she was 15 about to turn 16. From a young age I had to take responsibility and learn to do things for myself. At 7 years old I was picking out my own school clothes, ironing them, washing myself & cleaning the house. At 8 I was cooking for me and my little brother who was 3 years old. We were always left home alone while she worked. For my whole life she's been a single mother working a crappy job. I've never had money to do what I want or to even eat. There is never any food in the house. The refrigerator is empty. The cabinets are full of expired food. It's been this way since I was 10. I'm not sure what happened to make it this way, but whatever it was really hurt us. My mom recently got a new boyfriend. He cheats on her, mentally and verbally abuses her, and uses her. When he's here it's like she doesn't even know she has kids. Numerous nights I've woken up with him standing over me in my room. Or Ive walked in while he was in my room. That has made me extremely uncomfortable. I took my own money and u bought a $30 lock and key for my room door just because I can't sleep without it. I don't have any mental health problems. I never have. Im a straight A student. And I didn't start feeling this way until he moved in. A few months after I turned 15 I started filling out applications for any place that would hire 15 year olds. I turned in at least 50 applications. And I ended up getting a job at Mc Donald's. I've been working at Mc Donald's for a year now. And I've gotten a .70 cent raise throughout the year. I'm paid as a crew trainer. And I work 40 hours a week. My checks are usually 900 + I can ride my bike to work it's up the street from my house. And I ride the bus to school. If I'm emancipated I'll live with my grandmother or one of my uncles. (I have 2). I could also live with my boyfriend. But I'm not only doing this to live with him. I'm doing this because I can't live in this house anymore and be accused of lying when I tell her that her boyfriend walked in my room in the middle of the night. I don't wanna spend my life in my own house being uncomfortable and feeling uneasy. I feel as if me being emancipated would take a load off of her shoulders. That's one less person she would have to worry about or sort of take care of.
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