Grandparents Threating to Go to DHS

[hanson423]

My question involves a child custody case from the State of: oklahoma

my girlfriend is 17, and her parents found an empty alchohol bottle under her bed, we dont know how it got there and now they are threating to take what they found and tell DHS that our child is endangered because of the alchohol bottle...now i was telling my girlfriend that they cant do anything cause they cant prove it was ours...could anything happen to our child because of this?

[Mr. Knowitall]

my girlfriend is 17, and her parents found an empty alchohol bottle under her bed, we dont know how it got there....

Perhaps it was the monsters that live under her bed - there are a lot of long, boring hours between scares.

Seriously, if you don't know how the bottle got there, your girlfriend's parents aren't the only ones to whom she may owe an explanation.

...and now they are threating to take what they found and tell DHS that our child is endangered because of the alchohol bottle...

When you leave bottles of alcohol on the floor, and a small infants will later be crawling around on the floor, you put the small infant at potential risk.

now i was telling my girlfriend that they cant do anything cause they cant prove it was ours...

Right. It was monsters. Or pixies. Maybe elves. But definitely not the kid who made a baby on that bed with her boyfriend. Good thing her parents didn't find a bong that the monsters hid in her closet....

The phraseology, "They can't prove it," says a lot more than you think it does.

could anything happen to our child because of this?

Yes. If you leave bottles of alcohol on the floor your child could drink some of the alcohol and succumb to alcohol poisoning.

[hanson423]

Perhaps it was the monsters that live under her bed - there are a lot of long, boring hours between scares.

Seriously, if you don't know how the bottle got there, your girlfriend's parents aren't the only ones to whom she may owe an explanation.

When you leave bottles of alcohol on the floor, and a small infants will later be crawling around on the floor, you put the small infant at potential risk.

Right. It was monsters. Or pixies. Maybe elves. But definitely not the kid who made a baby on that bed with her boyfriend. Good thing her parents didn't find a bong that the monsters hid in her closet....

The phraseology, "They can't prove it," says a lot more than you think it does.

Yes. If you leave bottles of alcohol on the floor your child could drink some of the alcohol and succumb to alcohol poisoning.

the bottle was completely empty, whos to say the didnt put the bottle there?

[aardvarc]

Who cares who says what - ultimately if it comes down to it, a judge gets to decide whose story is more credible. And it's never the teenager with a child. It's just not.

[Mr. Knowitall]

Nor is it the teenager without the child.

Having a semi-literate, probably adult baby daddy protest, "Prove it was us. Just prove it. Maybe her parents are framing us!".... That's not going to help.

[aardvarc]

"How do you know when a teenager is lying? Their lips are moving."

- Judge Judy

[Mr. Knowitall]

I thought that was the answer to, "How do you know when a TV judge is being a money-grubbing attention hound, eager to embarrass the entire concept of judicial impartiality in order to turn another quick $million...."