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Originally Posted by Patricia
Mine threw me out when I was 16.
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That's rather hard to imagine....
When I was 15, I left my mother's house to go live with my father in order to change school systems, and hopefully get away from my brother and my stepfather, who was an ok guy, but we didn't get along. My mother told me she was letting me go because she thought I was old enough to take care of myself. What neither of us took into account was that my brother (three years younger) would follow me, and I wasn't really old enough to take care of both of us (though he still credits me with raising him).
I wasn't financially independent at that point, but probably could have arranged to be if necessary. My 18 year old is neither financially independent nor mature enough to take care of herself. It may be worth mentioning that she's only been in the US for 6 years, and had virtually no schooling in China. She's quite bright, but we've kind of been building from the ground up, especially when it comes to common sense.