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So three years ago at the age of 17 my sister gave birth to a baby boy. Instead of taking care of him however and being a mother to him she literally abandoned him and left him to be raised and taken care of by his grandmother. She all the while has gone off and on of drugs, lived from place to place, been involved in illegal activity, and has never contributed one penny to his finances. Now she is threatening to take him, he is three now and has everything he needs and we, her family, know that she is still unstable and unresponsible and we fear for his safety and security.
We know that she is his mother and therefore has guardianship of him however there has to be some way we can have the courts see what kind of damage she would do to him should she take him and run as well as how unstable she is financially and emotionally (she has been diagnosed with bipolar and manic depression) We fear that she would take him and that we would never hear from the child again.
Where should we take it from here?
So three years ago at the age of 17 my sister gave birth to a baby boy. Instead of taking care of him however and being a mother to him she literally abandoned him and left him to be raised and taken care of by his grandmother. She all the while has gone off and on of drugs, lived from place to place, been involved in illegal activity, and has never contributed one penny to his finances. Now she is threatening to take him, he is three now and has everything he needs and we, her family, know that she is still unstable and unresponsible and we fear for his safety and security.
We know that she is his mother and therefore has guardianship of him however there has to be some way we can have the courts see what kind of damage she would do to him should she take him and run as well as how unstable she is financially and emotionally (she has been diagnosed with bipolar and manic depression) We fear that she would take him and that we would never hear from the child again.
Where should we take it from here?