I represent kids in foster care. Unfortunately, it happens all too often, especially for trans kids. Kids end up couch surfing with friends, making sexually risky decisions in order to have a place to stay, or placed in foster homes that can also be abusive (again, especially for trans kids). The lucky ones are placed in safe and affirming foster homes.

Not recently. Although I know a kid who just graduated from high school who lives in his car. His parents pay the bills. I'm not sure why this is occurring, but he very obviously has autism.


40 years ago, my sis in law's mom kicked her out at 16 because mom's new boyfriend didn't want kids around. She set my sis in law up in an apartment, though, and paid the rent. (Not justifying, just saying sis in law was not technically homeless).

Anonymous wrote:There is a pretty famous local case re this involving a mother who left her son with his AAU teammates while she moved to South Carolina.

Chris Jenkins went on to play for Villanova and win the national championship in 2016 against that same AAU teammate whose family took him in, Nate Britt (who went to Gonzaga for high school). Was a very sad situation and I have huge respect for the Britt family. When Jenkins was interviewed for the Final Four, he said the Britts were now his parents.

I had to go and read about this and I don't think this is a similar situation....also I wonder if he should have went ahead and entered the draft after the shot.

https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-basketball/villanovas-kris-jenkins-pays-tribute-to-his-mothers-for-mothers-day

My friend’s mother was kicked out at 15 or 16. She was Jewish and wanted to convert to Christianity. She ended up moving to a convent for a few years. This was a college friend and I didn’t know this until I proofread a paper he’d written for a religion class about why he was interested in religion and how religion had shaped him.

I met another friend because she ran a potluck Thanksgiving event and I wanted to help. She had been running it for a few years and said her first few years a boy had come who was kicked out of his home for being gay. The first time he came to the event he was 16, couch surfing. I can’t imagine kicking a child out for these reasons. I don’t know know what I would do if one child seemed a threat to the other but hopefully that will never be an issue. (They are currently 6 and 11).

Anonymous wrote:That viral girl with the rich doctor mom who said she was a foster care kid on college apps did this at 16 or 17. 16 year old kids can be really clever.

You do realize that there was more truth to that story than the mom wanted everyone to believe, dont you?

Anonymous wrote:My mother had me move to my dad’s house when I was 13, because I’d run away, because my stepdad at the time had slapped me across the face.

I asked to move back when I was 15 but she said no. My bio dad was sexually abusive.

Good times

wow I'm so sorry. Big hug and all the strength in the world to you.

Often it's a troubled PARENT. Because stable parents, with good jobs, who place a lot of value on their community reputation don't want to be known as the household who kicked a CHILD out of the house.

Anonymous wrote:I mean, my ex-wife kicked our daughter out at 14. She has lived with me for four years. Despite 50-50 custody on paper.

That’s a bummer for your daughter, but at least she’s with you!

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I have heard of abusive parents abandoning their teen children by kicking them out of the house.

My crazy mother did this to me! Threw my stuff out in the lawn. Good times.

Jesus. I'm so sorry.

Thank you.

Yes. Former classmate. He lived with a friend to finish 11th grade, then moved to a different state to live with an aunt. He eventually went to college and got a job. I ran into him years later when we both had the same job, so career-wise it didn’t mess him up too much.
I don’t know what was going on with his parents—from his description he was a challenging kid, but they were selfish jerks.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I have heard of abusive parents abandoning their teen children by kicking them out of the house.

My crazy mother did this to me! Threw my stuff out in the lawn. Good times.

Jesus. I'm so sorry.