Q: Is it illegal for me to leave my adoptive parents house at the age of 17 if they threaten to put me back in foster care?
The dominate reason is because I have been sick since the day after Christmas and still haven't yet been able to relax to get better, I constantly lock myself away from the family in my room, I am currently having to go to court for "failure to clean my room up to my parents standards" otherwise known as insubordination. My room is clean they did not give me things to put my dishes in since I have been ready to move out since 2015. They have threatened to put me back in foster care due to bad grades,I have already talked to several counselors on the mater as well as my therapist, I am well beyond my toleration limit of my parents and am suffering with crippling depression on top of it all. I was working up until recently when my workplace shut down due to lack of business, I had money and my mother, Jackie Howard who works for Adriel, told me that more than 60 dollars came up missing out of my account and on top of this she faked my signature and put a new pin on my pay card.
A: Please talk to a school counselor or other trusted adult. If your parents already have you going to court, they could have you put back into the system if you leave. Or they could just let you leave and say nothing to anyone.
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