What is emancipating yourself mean?

Question

I saw it on a question amd I'm wondering what it means. Does anyone know?

Answer 1

It means to get a divorce from your parents.

Answer 2

The site given above is incomplete in its description.

If it's the legal meaning you are after, it means that you are declared able to take care of yourself...you no longer require any guardian except (and here's the catch), the government.

You are "free" of your parents or other formal legal guardians. However, they are also free of you and don't need to support you or be responsible for your actions or well-being. Until the age of majority, a young person becomes a ward of the state or the government. So while parents may have "no say", a social-worker still will. Many kids don't realize this.

Some teens think it'd be cool to be emancipated and in some cases it is necessary and desirable both for the teen and the guardians. Parents don't have to be unable to provide proper care for a teen in order that they be emancipated. Sometimes the teen is the problem.

However, a person is truly on their own if emancipation happens, aside from being watched by a social worker, so emancipation is never granted without a lot of consideration. And having a social-worker keeping tabs is like reporting to a parole officer. Not the freedom some think comes with being emancipated.

Answer 3

emancipation

The act of freeing someone from restraint or bondage. For example, on January 1, 1863, slaves in the confederate states were declared free by an executive order of President Lincoln, known as the "Emancipation Proclamation." After the Civil War, this emancipation was extended to the entire country and made law by the ratification of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution. Nowadays, emancipation refers to the point at which a child is free from parental control. It occurs when the child's parents no longer perform their parental duties and surrender their rights to the care, custody and earnings of their minor child. Emancipation may be the result of a voluntary agreement between the parents and child, or it may be implied from their acts and ongoing conduct. For example, a child who leaves her parents' home and becomes entirely self-supporting without their objection is considered emancipated, while a child who goes to stay with a friend or relative and gets a part-time job is not. Emancipation may also occur when a minor child marries or enters the military.

Answer 4

e·man·ci·pate (-mns-pt)
tr.v. e·man·ci·pat·ed, e·man·ci·pat·ing, e·man·ci·pates
1. To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate.
2. Law To release (a child) from the control of parents or a guardian.

Answer 5

emancipation id freedom from slavery

Answer 6

empancipation is setting yourself free