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If you are in a situation where needing to barricade your door to prevent your parent's entry is a regular occurrence, it is probably time to involve child protective services. You don't need to give details of your situation to strangers on the internet, but I would highly encourage you to go to a trusted friend or family member's home and contact the authorities.
Hey, sorry, in a perfect world that would be the answer but in most places no, CPS will not be a good idea. At best they can remove you from that situation at which point you enter the very, very under-funded foster care system. This means a loss of friends and family perhaps changing schools alot of the time not enough food to eat some nights, or proper clothes, education, protection, etc.
On top of this, often those in charge of these places are quite terrible people too. Abusive mentally, sexually, or physically.
At worse, and more commonly, they do nothing and the abuse gets worse.
I really wouldn't suggest this option so willingly unless you knew the local system or the abuse was much worse than the, admitadly very concerning and not something this kid should have to deal with, current description.
I don't know much about CPS, but now that I think about it, it's not really ideal for my situation.
I don't know your situation. Though I'd caution you about contacting them without knowing your local CPS and their track record, I hope if it is or becomes untenable that'll be an option.
I wish the best for you. I know quite a few people who've had terrible experiances with their parents, I hope like them things can get better for you with time