Should I Step in and Remove My Brother’s Kid From His Care?
Question by shagsbd: Should I step in and remove my Brother’s kid from his care?
My Brother is 24, and has a 4 year-old son, whom he has custody of. My Brother has not had a job since he was 17 and worked 2 days a week at a pet store for 3 months. He is a heroin addict, and has been going to a methadone clinic for over a year now. He claimed he was off the junk, but then OD’d last month, had a seizure, and ended up in the hospital where we found all his fresh track marks. He has 4 teeth left in his mouth from doing drugs, including a 3 year addiction to meth. He has pretty much been a drug addict since our parents divorced when he was 10. Yes, you read that right, 10. He drinks about a 1.75 ltr. of booze every Friday and Saturday, when his son goes to his mother’s for her visitation time. She isn’t any better. She is extremely verbally and emotionally abusive to her son, and is also a drug addict and a heavy drinker, although not as bad as my brother.
My brother’s home is a disaster zone. There is no clean places to walk through, and in all my travels across the US I have NEVER seen even a public toilet as gross as his toilet is. He does not own a vacuum, and has lived in his current apartment for 9 months without it being cleaned once. There is trash and old food everywhere in their place, and dirty laundry piled up 3 feet high (no exaggeration). My brother smokes, as does his father, like a chimney, and together they smoke 5 packs a day. They have no problem smoking around the kid, who has had a permanent smokers cough since he was 2 months old.
My nephew is a great kid, who is starting to really show the signs of all the abuse and neglect he is given. He was potty trained, but has recently begun to crap his pants again. He does it constantly now, and also randomly chooses to pee on his own bed. Not wet the bed, but rather it will be the middle of the day, and he will stand up and pee on his bed. He also eats terribly, and most of the time his diet at home consists of doughnuts and power bars and pop and candy, which my brother and his dad whom he lives with thinks is a perfectly fine diet.
My nephew comes over to either my home or my mother’s home and always asks us if he can live with us, and gets very upset when it is time to go. Not a tantrum (I have 3 girls of my own, I know the difference), but genuinely sad that he has to go back to that environment. When he is at my home, he never has an accident in his pants. He eats great, and sleeps through the night no problem. He is a great little kid, and I am having such a hard time knowing what to do!
My mother keeps trying to give my brother the benefit of the doubt, but I just think enough is enough. My brother is moving out this week, into an apartment with an alcoholic friend of his who also has Hep. C, and he sees no problem with this. The guy also lives in a VERY bad area in Minneapolis.
I love my brother, and I know he had a very tough childhood, but I am right in feeling like he needs to grow up and put his son first? Should I step in and contact child services? Reading what I have written, it almost seems so obvious, but, when it comes to family, it never is.
Best answer:
Answer by Hold em Rox
Your nephew should have been taken away a long time ago.
Sorry to say but your mom is in denial or she just doesn’t want to have to raise the little boy.
Contact CPS, no child should have to live like this EVER.
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