A lot can be done. You can't give up just yet. You have options you may not see them now but they are available you just need keep looking for them. Battered women's shelters are different than most shelter at least here in the U.S. They will and do take the mother an kids in for as long as they can and need to. They wild help with jobs etc. they are a blessing for many women. Your almost 18 even if you can't get your mom to leave you can leave then. You won't have to be subjected to that much longer. Hang in don't give up. You have a lot of life to live just yet friend. I've been to hell an back. By the time I was 18 I had all but gave up but then something amazing happened. My girlfriend got pregnant as soon as I found out i was going to be a father my life became drastically different and everything turned around for me but then you know what hell came back for me for a little while it took time but things got better again and then boom hell was back for me once more but I lived and life is better yet again. What I'm saying is life is ups and downs I'm sure you have heard that before but that's really all it is. Some of those downs seem to last forever but in time you go back up. Life will never be fair and you'll have to go trough a lot of bullshit but life is alway very rewarding and with all the bad you have to go through you get to go through good as well. Happiness and good are around you. You just need to not think of the bad and search out that happiness and good and in time it will find you. I hope when September comes that you will be in a better place and I will always be here to talk so just pm me. If September comes and your in the same place or worse I implore you to pm and I will be their to help you get past it.