Okay, so this is my situation. My boyfriend and I currently live with my parents in a nice home in a nice part of Long Beach. My "dad" is a very greedy person, he mainly only cares about money. Our house was payed off, but he took out 0,000 from the house and gambled it away at a casino; then less than a year later he took out more money, nobody really know what he did with that money, but we’re assuming the same thing. Now, we have 0,000 equity on the house, and he sold the house and we all now have to move to Moreno Valley where he bought a piece of **** house in full so he wouldn’t have to pay a mortgage anymore. Moreno Valley is not only very dangerous (infested with drugs and gangs), but an hour and a half away from my school and my boyfriend’s work. I’m currently 30 weeks pregnant, and about to graduate high school in August. My boyfriend and I are trying to look for a place to live (thankfully my mom is leaving me with ,000 to put down on a condo), because my boyfriend does not make much money and we will be struggling greatly. I thought that the best decision was to move to a state where the living cost is much cheaper, but they’re not going to give us a loan if my boyfriend doesn’t have a job. My parent’s are going to have about ,000 leftover from the house, and I asked my dad if I could have ,000 so that my boyfriend and I could get an apartment until he can find a job, but my dad said "i’m not giving you a f*cking penny!" Although that money is legally half my mom’s, I still had to ask my dad because my mom has no control over him and she already knew he was going to keep all the money for himself. My mom has tried to fix things, she even got ,000 from here mom in Italy so that she could send to the bank to lower the mortgage payments, and instead of sending it my dad kept it in his bank account and decided to live off of it, and it still somehow only lasted about 8 months. I feel very stressed out about this whole situation because my dad feels that he has no responsibility to pay for basically what I need to survive, although i’m 17 and still legally his responsibility. I just don’t see how my father could be so cruel to his daughter when I clearly need him to survive.
Fyi, i’m choosing college over getting a job. It’s worth struggling for a few years, rather than struggling for the rest of my life. I refuse to end up just like my father.

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