My brother ran away!

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Okay, long story...

 

So my parents are divorced, have been for 6 years now. My brother is 15, turning 16 in November, and he lives with my dad and our step-mother. My dad and his wife decided they wanted to move to another state in AUS, because it is where she is from, despite my brother having been moved around about 4 times since my parents broke up. He has been to 5 schools and he still has 3 years of school left!

 

My little bro is very young for his age, the divorce was very hard for him because he was younger and my dad moved him so far away from the rest of our family. Well, now he has moved him pretty much as far away as possible from the family, including myself, my mum, my grandparents, my sister, my uncles and aunts, our cousins etc. Both sides of my family are very close and I know my bro would miss that.

 

So of course my brother has been acting up, but my dad has always completely overreacted to everything us kids did and last night it all blew up. My brother forwarded an email to his contacts and it was just stupid kid stuff, but he said the f-word in the title. My dad replied to EVERYONE saying my brother was in trouble, it was disrespectful etc. Total overreaction, all he needed to do was sit down with him and explain what he did was wrong, I know my brother, he is the most like me then anyone in my family. H would respond to that. My dad flying off the handle does not help.

 

Anyway, so I get a msg from my mum last night saying that my bro ran away. My dad and he had a fight and he left the house. I offered to call him, as I knew he would answer my calls, which he did. I asked if he was alright, he said he is at a friends house. I was going to tell him to call Dad but then he told me that dad had thrown him into a wall, which is why he left. So I suggested he call mum and then got off the phone. I told my mum he was okay, and told her what he told me... so my dad will prob be pissed at me for telling but frankly Im pissed at him.

 

I know my brother wants to move back here, but my mum has just gone through a breakup with her abusive alcoholic ex, and she doesn't have the room in her house, nor the strength frankly to look after a 15 year old boy. My dad cant handle him, he has been trying for weeks to get my mum to take him off his hands. Damn, this sucks. My mum is at work so I dont even know what is going on until tonight.

My family is INSANE!