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The story is, a year ago I met a 14 year old boy (I was a 19 year old girl at the time, nevermind the username) who was in a very bad place in life: cutting, excessive drug use and an abusive home. Over the year I've helped him get cleaned up, befriended his parents and tried to help with the healing of that household and basically gave him a new perspective and a way out of the hole he was in. However, the healing of his home has lately been a failing work in progress and this morning there was a large meltdown there, including his mother choking him and calling the police, saying he assaulted her (which is a lie, he called me right after it happened barely able to speak) and I've had enough of watching him suffer. His mother has told me before she would let him live with me but now that the police are involved and since I live an hour away and he would still need to be registered for school and everything I feel like the situation has gotten to the point where the right thing to do is get him out of that family altogether. I still live with my parents (saving money during college, #financialpro) and big family in a large house in upstate New York and have a job. I'm going to ask my parents to take custody of him first, but if they're against it (which I have a terrible feeling they will be) how could I go about doing it myself, is there any hope at all? Would being a foster parent be easier?
<bot>: My young friend, for the sake of his physical and emotional well-being, can no longer stay at home and I want to take him in, though I'm unsure on how to proceed