What age is too young to leave home?

I think a good age to leave home at would be when you're ready to support yourself completely. Think things through before making such a huge decision. If you can support yourself without anyone's help, that should be a good enough age.

This question is quite difficult to answer as people feel ready at different times in their lives. However, unless they have an alternative housing option that's free and safe it might be worth waiting until a sixteenth birthday. Then they'll be legally able to work and meet their costs of living like rent, gas, electric and food. Before someone's sixteenth birthday it may be considerably challenging when you factor in the relationship between expenses and basic wages. Safety should also be a priority do they know who they will be living with well enough? Do others close to them find this person or plural suitable?

Legally that is decided by your states laws, however I moved out at fifteen and lived with my friends family for a year and a half. It was extremely difficult to make ends meet on my minimum wage job and not something I would recommend for people so young.

Any age under 18, I know everyone is always in a hurry to leave and explore the world but it's harder than you think.

I think maturity is the real measure of how young you can be to leave home. If you're mature enough to know your priorities, what you want in life, what the society around is like instead of what you want it to be, and can see both sides of arguments and avoid fights, you are mature enough to leave home. Age is just a number, maturity is a personality trait you gain from experience.

18 is still too young to leave home. As a young adult, you still need your parents guidance. Do not leave just because you think that and you know you are capable to support and take care of yourself. Do not forget it is good to eat a home cook meal prepared by your mom which you will not be able to eat when you leave home.

my sister was 16 when she left home to study, two years ago. when i met her last month, she seemed mature and experienced, when i asked her about her time away, she said she wishes she hadn't left, she had cried herself to sleep most nights because people weren't caring like she was used to as she grew up, she couldn't even tell mom and dad cause she had left home even when they asked her to reevaluate her decision. At 16, you are still immature and are easy prey to being abused, yes it did make my sister independent but she could have learnt the same things at a slower pace than how she did so rapidly while away from home. her study suffered and confidence broke, and she became more vulnerable.

Leaving home is a big step. I wouldn't put an age on it. Maybe more of looking at if you can support yourself.

I think you should be at least 18 years old if you want to move out. You have a certain degree of independency then and can work and earn money for yourself and legally, as you are an adult, you don't need your parents to sign agreements for you or things like that. But also, if you are in an abusive household or your parents are treating you badly, you shouldn't hesitate to leave that home as soon as possible. If you have someone you trust or a place you know is safe for you to go to, that is.

There is no number. Its based on your knowledge and understand of the world and how it works. You could be 26 and be so lost and confused and have nothing behind you to support life on your own. You could be 16 and experience so much already that you know how to live on your own. Of course I would never recommend or encourage someone younger than 18 to do so, its all based on what they've experienced. Whether that means home life is unhealthy or they just have the ability to move forward alone.