A court order will follow you like a plague..once free of the court order, then your free to move away..as along as your 18, etc.....
Accepting anykind of government funding, etc...pretty much follows you like a plague as well...."they" know you and where your at, as long as your hand is out....
Getting a job is pretty much the American way and thanks to the current government, jobs are not easy to come by and have not been for the past 40 years....it is not easy to tell the "man" to shove his crappy slave jobs and get a new job next day...back when my Dad was a teen, you could do that and legally drive a car at age 12 or bum around the country side working for farmers, etc.....those days are long gone....the man has you numbered and followed in great detail via credit cards, etc...
Getting a job, having an income, is just part of life as an adult, with out that, your always going to have your hand out. IT SUCKS, I did my 30 years at my first hell hole of a job...you are lucky if a dirty job does not kill you...the system really prefers that you die on the job.
By age 18, a boy should be capable of providing for himself.....that is the way the American society is...if you failed to acheive that, then you have accepted what your guardians hae supplied you in life...
NO WORK / NO PLAY that is the American Way when you are born poor....I had no running water as a child to drink from, all our water was dirty...No toilet to pee in, no bathtub to bath in...NO TV, No radio, no electronics and got a nickel for mowing the yard, that purchased a good size tube of BBs for the BB gun that supplied hours of fun. A nickel also purchased fire crackers that were legal back in those days. I doubt you are as poor as I was and most adults look back at those poor days as the best days of their life....back when life was simple.
There are plenty of cults in the major cities..chicago would eat you up as will most large inner cities that have so called christian cults living together and if you go homeless, you will have to burry yourself under the trash each night, or the other bums will roll you al night long to see if you have any $$$/food they can steal. One fellow we know well found himself all alone and he turned to the salvation army and has stayed/worked with them for many years now and believes it to be his home...
I assume you will find no suitable mate as long as you are poor/homeless..otherwise maybe you could get lucky and she could care for you....but you know what those chances are....most young males in the USA know it is dam near impossible to find a decent woman to marry anymore..that is, unless you have $$$/educated and most of all, "lucky" and it does not sound like you have been lucky in life as of yet. OR, maybe your just toooooo spoiled all these years????
MH