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Question by : Should I allow my children to see their father in a drug treatment center?!?
My love and the father of my children is taking part in a six month rehabilitation program, because hes a heroine addict. He has been an IV drug user for about six months, and finally checked himself in because he claims he really wants help and wants to be a part of my and the kids life. I just don’t know if its a good idea to take my children, who are two and four, to visit their father. I mean hes in there with a whole bunch of people like him who have some sort of drug problem and I dont know if it would be appropriate for my babies to be around people like that. I mean I know that they need to see their dad and its already been a few weeks which is a really long time for my four year old who has seen her dad everyday of her little life before this. She really wants to see him and really misses him. She blames herself that she can’t see daddy and that he can’t live with us right now; I think her being able to see him and see that hes okay would help her be okay with the whole situation. I just don’t know if they should be in that kind of enviroment. I told her that he was sick and had to go to the hospital, I just dont want it to hurt them anymore. Another thing is in one month he can leave the facility for a few hours… should I just wait!??

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Answer by Bobydob
i think you should take the children to see their dad…you dont say if youve visited yourself, but usually these centres never have any tell tale signs that the patients are drug users, and obviously everybody there is clean for the duration of their stay, so they will be reletavely normal people….why dont you go on your own first and see what you think?

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Answer by James Watkin
You need to go to treatment alone and let your kids stay with their dad or grandparents. Why should they have to witness people puking and shaking and pooping on themselves and screaming and freaking out and sweating while going through withdrawal? You already put them through enough.

Then check yourself in and get help and arrange for whoever is caring for them to bring them for family sessions. Because you aren’t being a good parent on drugs so your wanting to parent them continually is a joke. You need to get yourself together away from them so you can be honest about the part of the parenting you are screwing up. And you cannot do that worrying about feeding and bathing and looking after them.

Go get help and let them be kids. And enjoy life away from you for a while. Don’t use them as a crutch not to get help. Kids would rather be away from a druggy parent for a year than be with one for a second. If it means they will soon have some normalcy in their lives.

If you are still hell bent on dragging them through it with you, call your local United Way and ask for drug addiction resources in your area. Then call all the numbers you get and ask your question. Eventually someone will be able to help you.

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A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by Alcohol and Other Drugs / Documentary Video. Nation’s Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by Alcohol and Other Drugs. AVA1947VNB1, 1995. The video tape is the program of a nationwide teleconference on behavioral, medical, and educational impact of prenatal drug exposure. The accompanying resource guide is a companion to the teleconference. Producer: Department of Education. Creative Commons license: Public Domain A companion to a January 1993 nationwide teleconference entitled “A Nation’s Challenge: Educating Substance-Exposed Children” and organized by the Florida Department of Education, this booklet provides educators with information and research on effective strategies for working with children affected by alcohol and other drugs. It also provides guidelines for developing and implementing a school or community action plan to deal with this problem. The three main sections of the booklet provide: (1) profiles of eight innovative intervention programs at the school district and community level; (2) profiles of five state and national resource organizations that can provide financial and technical support to school or community programs; and (3) an annotated bibliography of articles, books, reports, teaching resources, newsletters, toll-free telephone numbers, clearinghouses, catalogues, videos, and other resources on strategies for working with children affected by alcohol and other drugs. Three …
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