A girl I use to me friends with, now is more an acquantance, had a baby last December. She and her bf are addicted to cocaine, and is constantly doing it while their baby is there with them. They also are drug trafficking, EVERYTHING, I mean everything!! Should I call childrens aid even thought the baby's needs are being met and generally they are good parents?
2006-09-28 14:46:07 · 38 answers · asked by gorgeousprincess_19 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Yes you should. How are the baby's needs being met when her parents are always high and snorting drugs. She most likely isn't getting the type of homelife and love she should!
2006-09-28 14:48:50 · answer #1 · answered by **KELLEY** 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My parents were addicted to drugs, and growing up in that enviorment (even with all the needs being met) is the most stressful, and painful thing. Parents should be role models, although no parent is perfect. I can say from experience, that maybe the babies parents are doing a good job now, but in a couple of years that might not be the case. The drugs can harm the baby, and probably have caused unknown harm if the mother did this while pregnant. Please, get the baby help because growing up that way is HORRIBLE. The baby will thank you one day, I know if someone had done that for me, I would totally thank them. = /
2006-09-28 17:05:53 · answer #2 · answered by xxxdarksakuraxxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell Yes!!!!! As a former case worker for children's aide let me tell you that the childs immediate needs may be being met, but that it's emotional and psychological well being could well be in jeopardy in a household such as you describe, and while all those things may not currently be an issue eventually that child is going to be put into some sort of dangerous situation dither due to the parents own addiction, or to the people they have coming to purchase drugs from them.
lastly a child in a household with one or more drug addictted parents is 90% more likely to end up and addict themselves.
Call Children's Aide, you'll be giving that child a chance in life.
2006-09-28 14:57:56 · answer #3 · answered by Gent Of Style 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you know your friend/aquaintance well and you know her family then my first course of action would be to talk to the granparents of the baby and let them know what is going on. Most grandparents will side with their grandchildren when their children are doing the wrong thing. This option seems to be the first plan of action because there is a good chance that one of the grandparents of the baby will try to get custody themselves. This would be better for the baby because so that they do not have to get shuffled around as much. If this is not an option I would definitely call CPS because that baby needs and deserves drug-free parents. At the very least they are probably driving the baby around while they are high. That is child endangerment. As sad as it would be for the baby to be in foster care it might also force the parents to seek help in order to get their child back which would be good for everyone involved.
2006-09-28 14:55:37 · answer #4 · answered by stranger_grrrl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I don't believe it's possible to be a good parent and meet all your kid's needs if you are addictive to a drug like cocaine and drug trafficking. I'm not even mentally/emotionally there for my son when I'm buzzed on cold medicine!! Yes, call someone. It's about the baby, and they have missed that somewhere between 'sniff' and 'for sale'.
Kudos to you!
2006-09-28 14:50:41 · answer #5 · answered by Margie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes! I knew a girl back when I was in school who was in that situation as a baby. Her parents were addicted to cocaine and she got put into the foster care system and adopted. She wrote this very touching poem and read it in class about how glad she is to have been adopted by such great parents, who were not into drugs. You should definitly do it for the childs safety and future.
2006-09-28 14:52:14 · answer #6 · answered by Ashley P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Even if the baby is taken care of, what if some druggie comes in and shoots them all??YES YES YES!!!*Tosses you the phone!
BTW good parents look after their childs TOTAL well being! Is it safe to have a baby in a house full of cocaine??You know whats right or you would have never asked this! Follow your heart.
2006-09-28 15:36:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you live with yourself if you don't and something happens?
By all means,yes, call. They will be given the chance to straighten up and get the baby back. You are giving a child a chance at a good life and two lost sheep a chance to get help. My mother in law used to be a foster parent, I've seen what happens to these kids.
2006-09-28 14:53:09 · answer #8 · answered by lynn c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Call Children's Aid right now. Parents that are high are NOT good parents. When the child gets older and they take it to school, they'll get high and forget about the child and the child will be waiting at schoool all day. Save the child's pain and CALL CHILDREN'S AID immediately.
2006-09-28 15:31:56 · answer #9 · answered by 2horsesforme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you should call them. That is not a safe environment for that baby. They could get busted and lose the baby anyway. If they are on drugs and selling them then they don't need that baby. She can be in a better environment.
2006-09-28 15:22:10 · answer #10 · answered by amanda H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Baby may be OK now while its tiny, but what's it going to be growing up in a home like that - IF the parents live long enough to raise it? Best to alert the authorities, usually you can remain anonymous if you're scared it will come back on you. But its definitely in the kid's best interests to get it out of that environment.
2006-09-28 14:55:30 · answer #11 · answered by hoonette 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋