You should call the Department of Social Services, Child Protective Services in your county. North Carolina isnu2019t the most progressive place in the country recently but locking a kid out of the house is beyond the pale. If the CPS people canu2019t straighten out your parents, they will find you a foster home. They might require some sort of counselling as well.Finding a job is generally a good thing for a teenager to do to get some work experience, but I know it might not be as easy as it seems.Edit: Maybe the culture gap between N.C. and the Northeast has grown wider than I thought. See the link in Karen Tiedeu2019s comment. Apparently there was a u201cdebateu201d there over whether leaving a nine-year-old in a park while Mom went to work was acceptable. Thatu2019s a no-brainer in my part of the country.