can your parents force you to come back home in mo. if you are 16?

Yes... however, you can get emancipated so you are legally considered an adult.

WHen you're 16 ALL teenagers think their parents mentally abuse them! Of course on occasion it's true abuse. And YES they can make you move back home if you are a minor. Obviously they DO care - obviously they aren't perfect parents - no one is! Obviously you aren't happy. BUT why not try a novel idea - sit down and TALK with them about how you feel.... in a moment when no one is pissed off and upset and exchange feelings, expectations, wants, needs, concerns etc.... It's may not happen easily or often but if and when it CAN actually happen THINGS change, people change, hearts change, trust, love, consideration & kindness develops..... It's not so strange and it OH SO helpful in the long term of your relationship. They are your parents and that isn' gonna change no matter WHERE you live. So act like the adult you say you want to be and TRY to talk to them like a mature person. WHen my kids actually control themselves enough to TALK to me - I LISTEN and it changes attitudes, behavior and mentality!

You ask can your parents force you to come back home. You say they're not abusive, than you went on to say you need proof and that you cant stand it there. I don't understand your question.

Are they abusive or not. Why do you need proof when you said they are not abusing you.

However until you're 18 years of age they own you. If they're not hurting you just stick in there it'll all be over soon (at 18) good luck

Here's the deal i live in Michigan and i ran away when i was 15 and i didn't have to go back the local police where i was living contacted me and asked if i was all right and stuff like that and i told them yes and they took me out of the computer as a runaway and there want anything my parents could do about it but if you want to catch them carry and tape recorder in your pocket and turn it on when it starts.

Prolonging the fantasy that her father will become a dad is hurtful in the long run. I would attempt personal contact with him, for her sake one more time, without threat or argument and to explain you only want your daughter to be happy, no strings. If he is still unwilling to know her, then you need to explain that though there was something you cared for in her father, he is self centered and obviously paranoid and in so being is cheating himself of knowing a wonderful girl. Make certain you don't go emotional because she needs your strength and to be able to do her own venting or show her own sorrow without feeling responsible for your feelings. Even if you don't intend to have her feel that way, kids naturally protect parents. I understand your anger. Only let this time be a time she gets to express what ever she is feeling. And mom you have done a great job. Please know there is a special heart for mothers in God. Especially those mothers, who in spite of disappointment, kept and loved their children and did their very best. KUDOS to you mam. You have all my respect

unless you are legally emancipated, in Mo. you cannot leave until you are 17.

If they aren't abusive and are loving parents (who maybe rub you the wrong way cuz they don't let you be you...) I'd suggest you grin/bear it and try to remember why they are the way they are (they love you/protect you/etc.) because you may find yourself wanting/needing their 'smothering' in the future when you face the real world...Good luck...hope it works out. (p.s. I left home when I was 16, but my parents didn't try to get me to come home...I had to grow up quite quickly and basically have worked extremely hard for the past 15 year supporting myself. Now, thankfully, my mom is my best friend) I really hope it works out for you with your family - I wish I had had more time to enjoy my teen years and not just work to survive!

If you are only 16, you should realize your parents only want what is best for u. I would take advantage of this time in your life by staying at home with your parents. They will give you a roof, food, clothes, pay the bills. Once you r out on your own, u have to do it all, and that is not fun. I have lived on the streets, and it is not a pleasant place to be. You have a lifetime to be grown and on your own. Don't try to grow up too fast.

If you are unhappy at home, try getting a job after school or volunteer at the hospital or something. Don't be in such a rush to leave your parents home.

Well if you are a runaway I'm pretty sure that is illegal and they can make you come back....and well, you can emancipate yourself from them but that is a court procedure.

Don't hold me to that first part, but I know the second part is true. Once you emancipate yourself from them legally then you are on your own. Treated as an adult, they no longer have to take care of your financially or otherwise.

where i'm from 17 is the legal age to move out so I probably will this summer when I get a job b/c I'm fed up with my stepdad and his stupid ways of being unchanging and hateful...not sure where I will go yet but I'll find somewhere's and then I will finish highschool and graduate and go to college in your case I'm sure if you could get the court's permission you could do the same.

Unless you have proof that they are abusive and hurting you in some way physical or mental they can take you back home you have to be 18 to move out with out their consent

if you are a minor they can go to court and have a judge write out an arrest warrant for you. This has happened to a friend, his daughter ran away to Florida. They arrested her and put her in a halfway house for 2 years.