Q: I'm 16 and wanting too get emancipated?
Parents both ex drug addicts, dad's acholic mom's a pill user
A:
Here are your options:
1. Call Child Protection Services (CPS) and complain that the parents are unable to care for the child. They will conduct an investigation. Once that is complete, CPS will call the police and ask them to assist them in removing the minor from the parents’ custody. They will put the child in foster care. If a family member is desirous and available to become the “guardian foster parent,” CPS might not object to their appointment. Idaho no longer has an Emancipation law. Used to, but no longer.
2. If the child runs away from this toxic environment, eventually the police will find them. Except unlike the prior example above, in this unfortunate situation, police will deliver the child to CPS, and may charge the child with being a runaway.
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