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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Question by Bonny: Can a husband send his baby with his father across state lines?
Mother is in a mental institution for a five-day evaluation. According to my mother, my brother informed her of his intention to send the baby home to be taken care of by my father, my husband and I and my mother while he is working (he’s a Coast Guard and has to be on the boat).
It has already been established by my brother and my father upon his arrival that the mother (19 years old, diagnosed with depression with suicidal tendencies and alcoholism, who has been hanging with people affiliated with gang members and my brother thinks she may have joined because is wearing their colors) is unstable and unfit to care for the child.
My brother also caught his wife cheating after coming home a day early from the boat.
She drinks Hennesey straight out the bottle and uses marijuana (we fear she may be on other drugs because she weighs about 85lbs – was always slim but now it’s very gaunt)
Question: Legally, can my brother send the baby to Michigan from Missouri?
Hex-Currently, the father and mother have equal custody. Baby is 2 months old. Mother still lives with husband. No divorce has been filed or seperation…
Hex-Been married for about a year and a half. Brother signed paternity papers. All are residents of Missouri. Brother is in USCG if that makes a difference.
Hex-Thank you for the info.
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Answer by Deep Thought With an emergency order, it should be very possible. Having her counselor’s diagnosis and evidence of her past actions will allow him to move the child.
It was a very special moment for Rick MacDonald of The Salvation Army today. After years of battling addiction and estrangement, Rick was reunited with his son Adrian. Video Rating: 5 / 5
(pt. 11 of 365) This is a rhyme called “Gasoline” I wrote a few years ago and have performed only once, for a solo set at the Roxy in Denver. At the time I was working with a group of young people in recovery for various types of addiction. I also was thinking a lot about a friend who was struggling intensely with alcoholism, or actually a better way to say it was that he is an alcoholic and was drinking a lot, and his friends were struggling with that. I also had just been at a party where a friend’s cousin got drunk and seemed determine to start a fight with some neighborhood kids. It all added up to this song. In high school and during most of my college years, a strong part of my identity was celebrating my ability to have fun without drugs or alcohol. Looking back, I’m glad I developed my identity without those influences. Over the last ten years I have let go of that as a central part of my identity, and I have at times integrated drinking into my routine. I’ve learned some things about myself this way too, but when it comes down to it, the sober me sure seems like a realer me than the drunk me. I find it interesting how ever-present this alcohol-related questions are: Should we do this show if it’s endorsed by alcohol companies? How can we host events that are welcoming to friends in recovery? What happens if students see a teacher drinking on his facebook page? Why are their so few places for sober nightlife? Does drinking make us dumber and more boring? Does …
Question by ya360: My son’s father and I are not working out due to alcoholism. He says he’ll leave but never does,how to get out?
We broke up once before and got back together. now a year and a half later. I need to get away. He’s not a bad person just an alcoholic. Every night he becomes wasted, he pees on furniture, trashes the house, he’s also bi polar. I’ve asked him to leave, and he says that he’ll look for a place but he never does, he just manipulates the emotions and snakes back in. I’m emotional drained and I just want him gone. He won’t leave. He’s acting out of love and doing what he thinks is right, it just coming from a warped perception. The thing that sucks is that we just moved out of state, and just signed a year lease. I cannot afford it by myself. He already told me that he does not want to pay for anything. I thought about leaving, but all my furniture is mine. what do I do
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Answer by daljack -a girl Give him 30 days to find another place to live….and then put him out.
You should join Al-Anon….it helps family members deal with the alcoholic in their family…..do this for you and your son.
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Chalk Talk on Alcohol is a three part discussion of the nations’ number one public health problem, alcoholism. Father Martin discusses the things we drink, why we drink them and what happens when someone has the disease of alcoholism. Alcohol is a sedative drug and is addictive. Alcoholism is an addiction to that drug for which there is effective treatment. Video Rating: 4 / 5
My fathers never drank alcohol in his life. He is very upset with a doctor and changed him after the doctor told him that it was too late for a treatment for his Cirrhosis. He changed his doctor and has an appointment Friday with the other doctor to get a second opinion. He does not have Hepatitis as per the old doctor.
What can we do to save him??
So its decided I am going to California in Aug. The household is too intense. My mom bangs the walls, yells hits, screams for no reason. My brother has my 30inch LCD and now I want it back but my father says that is my brothers. They argued with me told me I was worthless and ugly. So the other colleges I applied to are out of the question. I just called tampa univeristy to withdraw my application. I need help to deal with this until I leave in Aug. To be honest I dont really think I am going to make it. Every day I overdose on drugs because of this. This whole envrionment changed me. I am very calm when my mom has her bi-polar episode then my brother makes it worse insulting me and adding more fuel to my moms rage and takes it out on me. I have so much medication that everyday I overdose. They hospitlized me two times couple of months ago, for no reason. I was taking my medicine responsbilty and they assumed I was abusing it and had an eating disorder. None of this was true. Now because of all the lies they told me, doctors and family members I devloped an eating disorder, I abuse all of my medications every day, and I dont think I am going to live much longer. When I walk my heart hurts really bad. My pulse fluctuates dramatically from 55-170 everyday. Rehab will only but me back in the same situation! I just need to get out of here ASAP before I sersiouly die. I amn not overreacting or anything, but the abuse in the household is just unbareable. I do everything from reaming calm, asking questions as to why they are mad, remove my self from that situation but it doesnt help.Thank god its almost june, but seriosuly I am already contemplating suicide. I dont want to hear answers of seeking help, like going to a hospital or so forth because look what it did. I was a normal kid using adderall responsbily and after being tackeled by my father for no reason to go to the hospital tramatized me. I threathened them with eveyrhting and told them I get w.e. medication I want and they had to aggree cause I was about to leave ny again. This is not who I am. I dont understand why they do this, but I need serious coping skills. I am telling you, I dont want to hear go to hospital or rehab as I really dont have hte problem. I am just not dealing with the problems correctly. I am afraid if I ever go back to the hospital, I will die. I will proab gain weight. Become hestrical, overdose on meth, coke, or something and that it. I just need some serious guidance to deal with very verbally abusive manipulative people. Because with the rate how things are going I wont make it to Aug. four days ago I overdosed on Wellbutrin and had a seziure because my mom said all of this horrible stuff and my brother instigated it. It was so cruel and evil. Theres no other way I can deal with this?
I mean they said I went to the hospital for my own good? I was correctly using my medication and out of the bloom they drove my slowly crazy. I am telling you I need tips instead of short answers like go see somone. I dont have that avaliable right now! If you dont really listen to what I am trying to say and say stuff like rehab or seek help then I guess, this will be an anna nicole case in scarsdale. Its not that I am addicted to drugs its just the abuse in the fmaily is too much and there is no way I can deal with it. I have no family members that are supportive. I dont know, but please give advise.I am one step away from being a coke and meth addict. And mixing these with prescriptions well…end in death. Honestly if everyone thinks its hearsay horse say well, or doing this to cause attention well beleive that. All I really want is strategies to deal with this until college starts in aug. Because everyday I take more and more. Soon, I just might now wake up.
I am felling better, IO keyed my bros car so many times and soon ill key my moms car. MY dad, honestly if I saw him here I would put chlorine in his water and watch him die, so I am hoping he doesnt ever visist me.
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