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<blockquote data-quote="ksm" data-source="post: 582583" data-attributes="member: 12511"><p>I would say that her first couple of years were pretty good... It seems like her mom cleaned up her act and my son was doing pretty well. Then when she was about a year old, the mom got custody of difficult child's older brother who was about 2.5 years old and had pretty much been in foster care since he was born adducted to crack cocaine. About 6 months later my son and biomom married. Then she got pregnant with the youngest about 6 months after getting married. When youngest was about 4 to 6 months old, my son hurt his back and started having problems... on pain pills... needed back surgery... everything seemed to fall apart by the time difficult child was about 3. I'd say the last year and a half, both parents were having addiction problems. The house was always cluttered and filthy, the kids seemed to be fending for themselves a lot, with the big brother (about age 6 at the time) fixing the little one cereal or PB sandwiches. </p><p></p><p>The parents were neglectful due to the pain medications and street drugs, but there was no known abuse. difficult child seemed to be biomoms "golden child" who could do no wrong. But the older brother sometimes got the brunt of the blame when difficult child broke something, or lost her shoes. Little sis was pretty much ignored by mom... with my son doing most of the hands on. He was a pretty good dad to all three, but was overwhelmed, esp after the spinal fusion surgery and was put on oxycontin for pain. But I know that the kids mom was "sharing" his medications. DS was the one who told his doctor that things were bad at home and started the SRS being involved. He wanted to leave and get better, but didn't want to leave the kids with their mom. And he knew he couldn't do much about the two step kids. </p><p></p><p>I have often wondered if difficult child might have been abused by someone outside the family... but there is no proof of it, and difficult child has no bad memories of her time with her mom. KSM</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ksm, post: 582583, member: 12511"] I would say that her first couple of years were pretty good... It seems like her mom cleaned up her act and my son was doing pretty well. Then when she was about a year old, the mom got custody of difficult child's older brother who was about 2.5 years old and had pretty much been in foster care since he was born adducted to crack cocaine. About 6 months later my son and biomom married. Then she got pregnant with the youngest about 6 months after getting married. When youngest was about 4 to 6 months old, my son hurt his back and started having problems... on pain pills... needed back surgery... everything seemed to fall apart by the time difficult child was about 3. I'd say the last year and a half, both parents were having addiction problems. The house was always cluttered and filthy, the kids seemed to be fending for themselves a lot, with the big brother (about age 6 at the time) fixing the little one cereal or PB sandwiches. The parents were neglectful due to the pain medications and street drugs, but there was no known abuse. difficult child seemed to be biomoms "golden child" who could do no wrong. But the older brother sometimes got the brunt of the blame when difficult child broke something, or lost her shoes. Little sis was pretty much ignored by mom... with my son doing most of the hands on. He was a pretty good dad to all three, but was overwhelmed, esp after the spinal fusion surgery and was put on oxycontin for pain. But I know that the kids mom was "sharing" his medications. DS was the one who told his doctor that things were bad at home and started the SRS being involved. He wanted to leave and get better, but didn't want to leave the kids with their mom. And he knew he couldn't do much about the two step kids. I have often wondered if difficult child might have been abused by someone outside the family... but there is no proof of it, and difficult child has no bad memories of her time with her mom. KSM [/QUOTE]
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