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Posted: 4/25/2017 7:14:33 PM EDT
...Or do you?
To make a short story long, my parents are in their 70's, they raised their 3 kids, for the past 21 years they have been raising my sister's kids while she lies, manipulates, and goes out to do her drugs. The two oldest girls are completely fucked, they like their drugs, dear ol mom got one of them(the 21 year old) into meth and heroin, and is starting the 15 year old out on weed and beer, the youngest girl just turning 3 this year was born addicted to a bunch of shit. The burden of "babysitting" 3-7 days a week has fallen on me and my wife because I can't stand to see my mom have to do this shit at 70 years old. The only one that is possible to help at this point is the youngest, we may be the only hope she has for any future in this life. Wtf do I I do? Should I push for custody? Should I mind my own business? |
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21 Year old is lost cause she'll have to want to stop, you wont help there.
You could save the 15, and 3 year old. You most certainly go against family, especially in this case. You can make the difference in these girls lives OP. |
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Interesting screen name.
Good luck with the 3 y/o. Maybe the 15 y/o Otherwise, cut-bait. |
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21 Year old is lost cause she'll have to want to stop, you wont help there. You could save the 15, and 3 year old. You most certainly go against family, especially in this case. You can make the difference in these girls lives OP. View Quote |
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Sorry for your family's unfortunate circumstances. That's a situation nobody should ever be in.
Offer an anonymous tip that gets the mom, the 21 year old and the 15 year old busted. Get custody of the 3 year old and the 15 year old. Send the 15 year old to rehab and when she gets out give her zero unsupervised time. Get her into activities instead. Show them how nice life is without drugs. |
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Literally Hitler for suggesting to slow the flow of drugs by building a wall.
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Doing the right thing isn't going against the family.
Your relative doing all the wrong things is who went against the family. In a worst case scenario, refer to the Godfather series on how to deal with that. |
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Don't make other people's problems your own. Not your circus, not your monkeys.
I'd report the lot to DFS and look to my own. |
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The 15yr old is a lost cause, she'll probably try to beat her older sister to the grave at that pace.
If you want to focus on anyone, focus on the 3yr old. Use the Man when needed. |
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Sorry for your family's unfortunate circumstances. That's a situation nobody should ever be in. Offer an anonymous tip that gets the mom, the 21 year old and the 15 year old busted. Get custody of the 3 year old and the 15 year old. Send the 15 year old to rehab and when she gets out give her zero unsupervised time. Get her into activities instead. Show them how nice life is without drugs. View Quote |
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Doing the right thing isn't going against the family. Your relative doing all the wrong things is who went against the family. In a worst case scenario, refer to the Godfather series on how to deal with that. View Quote |
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Doing the right thing isn't going against the family. Your relative doing all the wrong things is who went against the family. In a worst case scenario, refer to the Godfather series on how to deal with that. View Quote |
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Yea the 3 year old can be saved the rest with the freedom and exposure they have had. They will need to hit bottom before they'll seek help. That means homeless no family to help them anymore cut them off. If they are truly cut off they will hit bottom faster then maybe finally get or find help. I pray you'll find a way I hope I am wrong, but personal experience I've had proves otherwise.
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yeah
as much as it pains me to say this, you gotta do something OP send an anonymous tip that only has some of the info, so the family thinks it is someone else 15 year old could be saved if given the opportunity, 3 yr old is fine if raised right |
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Take care of the littler girl. Try and get custody. The rest of them can fuck off.
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Sorry I didn't mean to be harsh, just being realistic based on the situation- and the strain, risk, and cost associated with each possible course of action.
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I am very close to a family in exactly the same predicament. Except the mother and father are 78 and 80.
Heartbreaking they have to endure that shit. 5 kids. One is shithead. They have been unable to do anything. Zero. It just gets worse. Even family attorney says until something dramatic happens, like an arrest for something that sends him to jail for a year. There is nothing he can do. OP.. You have zero chance of helping any of those kids unless she willingly gives them up. Gets arrested and looses custody or dies an untimely death. Even then you will not be able to just March in and get the kids. It will be a cluster fuck of epic proportions. Every one looses. Best of luck. |
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Don't make other people's problems your own. Not your circus, not your monkeys. I'd report the lot to DFS and look to my own. View Quote |
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yeah as much as it pains me to say this, you gotta do something OP send an anonymous tip that only has some of the info, so the family thinks it is someone else 15 year old could be saved if given the opportunity, 3 yr old is fine if raised right View Quote |
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I am very close to a family in exactly the same predicament. Except the mother and father are 78 and 80. Heartbreaking they have to endure that shit. 5 kids. One is shithead. They have been unable to do anything. Zero. It just gets worse. Even family attorney says until something dramatic happens, like an arrest for something that sends him to jail for a year. There is nothing he can do. OP.. You have zero chance of helping any of those kids unless she willingly gives them up. Gets arrested and looses custody or dies an untimely death. Even then you will not be able to just March in and get the kids. It will be a cluster fuck of epic proportions. Every one looses. Best of luck. View Quote |
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This ^^^ is the answer you seek. Or if you're uncomfortable inviting "the Man" into anyone's life, simply disconnect from the situation before YOUR kids get pulled into the blackhole that is your sister & her kid's lives. View Quote needs and costs ya know....My kids seem to know whats going on, I've never lied to them, they are honor roll students that know sometimes good people have to do bad things, but good people are still good people. |
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Just because people are family doesn't mean they can't be worthless shitbags that need a heaping helping of the man in their life.
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If you can help the little kid do it, no kid deserves to live that life.
To hell with the others |
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You can't save the 15 yo, watched many try, their minds are made up and they know everything. Hey, we were there once too.
Unless you enjoy running a prison camp, because that's what it'd be like. |
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...Or do you? To make a short story long, my parents are in their 70's, they raised their 3 kids, for the past 21 years they have been raising my sister's kids while she lies, manipulates, and goes out to do her drugs. The two oldest girls are completely fucked, they like their drugs, dear ol mom got one of them(the 21 year old) into meth and heroin, and is starting the 15 year old out on weed and beer, the youngest girl just turning 3 this year was born addicted to a bunch of shit. The burden of "babysitting" 3-7 days a week has fallen on me and my wife because I can't stand to see my mom have to do this shit. She claims all the kids for food stamps (which she sells), and for taxpayer money. The only one that is possible to help at this point is the youngest (the 3y/o may have some brain damage but is the sweetest little girl) we may be the only hope she has for any future in this life. Wtf do I I do? Should I push for custody? Should I mind my own business? View Quote run..... I'm a pretty selfish person so I'm probably not the best to answer this but my vote is get as far away from this virtue sucking group of people as you possibly can or they'll make you hate life. |
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You can't save the 15 yo, watched many try, their minds are made up and they know everything. Hey, we were there once too. Unless you enjoy running a prison camp, because that's what it'd be like. View Quote |
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run..... I'm a pretty selfish person so I'm probably not the best to answer this but my vote is get as far away from this virtue sucking group of people as you possibly can or they'll make you hate life. View Quote Thanks for your input, and I think you're a good person on the right track, and you don't strike me as a selfish person, selfish people don't try to help others. Thanks. |
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[#44]
Get the 3 yr old if you can, but chances are mom's not going to let the meal ticket slip away easily.
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[#45]
Do you have children of your own or planning to have them? If yes, I wouldn't want to inherit someone else's cancer. Maybe the little one, if you have the funds to deal with the paperwork and ability to cut that part of the family away from you. No visitation, no bullshit. The adult and the teenager are lost.
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That might be the most profound thing I've seen today. Thanks. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Doing the right thing isn't going against the family. Your relative doing all the wrong things is who went against the family. In a worst case scenario, refer to the Godfather series on how to deal with that. My child is not in my life at all. Nor is the child in the grandchild's life. Thank Heaven for small favors! |
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Get the 3 yr old if you can, but chances are mom's not going to let the meal ticket slip away easily. View Quote |
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Do you have children of your own or planning to have them? If yes, I wouldn't want to inherit someone else's cancer. Maybe the little one, if you have the funds to deal with the paperwork and ability to cut that part of the family away from you. No visitation, no bullshit. The adult and the teenager are lost. View Quote |
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[#50]
I'm almost always of the MYOB mentality but family is a little different. They help their own when they can, and it sounds like at least the 3yr old needs your help. Too bad if that causes resentment from her mother...
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