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If not, have you considered contacting them as an option? Below is the New Mexico Abuse Reporting hotline. We can either take the report and pass it along to CPS or we can conference call with CPS should this youth decide to call us and make the report. If he decides the latter option, we would stay on the line and be able to advocate on his behalf. Also, since you are concerned about getting in trouble, is staying at a youth shelter at all an option?
Below are some shelter resources for your state. We wish you the best of luck! National Runaway Safeline info runaway. Can I move out at 17 and go live with my boyfriend Hi I would like to know if I can move out and live with my boyfriends but I don't wanna get him and his mom introuble I'm tired of living here with my parents we are not in the same page I wanna work put they don't let me I think it's better if I moved out since we cant talk good. Hi, Thank you for contacting the National Runaway Switchboard with your question.
We are glad that you found our bulletin and hopefully we can be of help. It sounds like you have some things going on at home that you are unhappy with.
Have you tried talking with your parents about how you feel? It seems like getting a job is important to you. Have you had a chance to express that to them? You mentioned that it is difficult for you to communicate well with your parents. We actually have a 3 way calling service if you want support on the line.
I'm 17 and I live in Socorro NM. I can't take it living here at home anymore. If I have a place to stay could I just leave? Or will the cops make me return home if I am found? I need answers ASAP and talking it out to my parents isn't an option they don't understand. Hi there, Thanks for reaching out tonight and asking these questions. That also means that the people you would be staying with could also be charged with harboring a runaway. We hope this information is helpful to you. If you want to talk more about anything or have any questions about the information above, you can call us 24 hours a day at RUNAWAY We look forward to your call or chat.
Best of luck, NRS. Is it illegal for me to leave? Im 17 and ill be 18 in November this month.! My mom told me last night to pack my stuff and leave. I told her fine and called my boyfriend to come pick me up.
She then told me that if I left she would report me as a run away and have me arrested. Can she really do this? Is it legal in the state of new mexico for me to leave?
Hi there, Thank you for reaching out to us, it sounds like things are difficult at home right now with your mom. Unfortunately we are not legal experts at NRS and therefore cannot speculate as to what would happen if you were to leave home while you are still under 18 years old.
There is the New Mexico Legal Aid office which can be reached at if you are looking to speak to a legal expert about your situation. Typically if you are under 18 years old and leave home your legal guardian can file a runaway report with the police which would result in you being returned home if located. You can chat with us online through our website at www.
I hate mystep mom What can i do to get away from her but not be sent to a foster home. I hate mystep mom Hey there, Thank you for being able to reach out to us here at the National Runaway Safeline, it sounds like you are going through a pretty tough time at this point in your life and we want you to know that we are here to listen and to help in the best way that we can. We want you to know that we are not legal experts here which means that we are only able to speak in general terms.
In most states, if you are still considered a minor, in order to leave home, you would need parental consent. If you wanted to know more accurately about what could happen or how you would go about your situation, please feel free to reach out to your local police department and ask some general questions. If that is something that makes you nervous, please feel free to reach out to us and we would be more than happy to talk through your situation and call your local police department for you.
We hope that we are able to give you some general information about what we do and how we could help. We also have a live chat program that is available every day from 4: We wish you the best of luck and hope to get your call or chat soon. Daughter missing My 17 year old daughter ran away from home yo be with her boyfriend , whom we didn't quite approve of.
I reported her missing and after two weeks of her not attending school I had no chose but to drop her. I found out she was staying at her boyfriends house, thru Facebook I was able to get the mother number and I called her, I expected her to say she wasn't aware of kasandra being a runaway she knew!!!!! And fully encouraged her to stay!
She even mentioned that her son and my daughter were trying to have a baby! It's been months and the police can locate their house. Yesterday I finally found out where she's living. Why won't the police go pick her up immediately? Will they arrest this woman? Thank you for Reading! On your next view you will be asked to log in to your subscriber account or create an account and subscribe purchase a subscription to continue reading.
One of those runaways is Jessica, a year-old Santa Fe girl, who wishes to keep her real identify private. She ran away from her home four times. The first time, she took off without much planning, grabbing only a pair of pajamas and a stash of Easter candy. She was gone for two days. A similar pattern followed the next three times: What is she running away from? Her conflict with authority, she said: Ramona, a mother who teaches at a public high school in Santa Fe and wishes to keep her identity concealed, understands how Jessica feels.
When she was a teen, Ramona thought about running away quite often — but never did. It was her daughter, Amanda, real name withheld, who left school without permission one recent day, after cleaning out her bank account then driving off in the family car in an attempt to get to Colorado. As Ramona wiped away her tears with a tissue, she recalled the panic she felt when she discovered her daughter was gone. She constantly thinks about what she could have done differently to stop her daughter: The police found her and she now faces a felony charge for stealing the car.
Many teens are part of families struggling with divorce, internal conflict, a second marriage, unemployment or other challenges. David Webb of the Santa Fe Police Department echoed that thought, saying many teens leave home because of a disconnect within the family unit.
A search through police department public records on runaway juveniles from and reveals differing reasons why teens fled. Some take off after a fight with parents or family members. Some get angry over something as simple as having cellphone privileges taken away. Occasionally, drugs and alcohol are involved.
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These teens leave by sneaking out the front door, slipping out of a window or suddenly disappearing from school or work. According to those records, one teen ran away after an attempt to steal some toilet paper from a local store, leaving a trail of toilet paper behind him as he fled. One girl was heading to the doctor with her mother when she took control of the steering wheel of the vehicle her mom was driving, nearly crashing the car, just to make her escape.
A boy, 16, left his home without a word. Such efforts can terrify parents, who fear the worst. Webb notes an increase in more collaborated runaways, wherein friends plan to run away together to the same location. He also has seen a spike in youth running away to Albuquerque. Many teen girls are running off with or to older boyfriends. In and , the police logged runaway juvenile reports, though many of them are repeat offenders.
The reports indicate that the police get involved often and quickly.