
Quoting
megansamson
My fiance is in pretty good health, but we both feel very strongly that this is in the best interest for the children. The mother's (lets refer to her as M) entire side of the family is on drugs and it does not seem that will ever change. The mother occasionally gets sober for a year or so but then always falls back into the old habits. After seeing her close proximity to the death of her 14 year old sister's son (by the way, the sister's baby's father was 20 years old, on heroin according to M's interview with a local newspaper and she still allowed him to take the child out of the home), I would never want her to have any chance at getting custody of the children. I guess my hope is that if I were to take action soon, she may still be on drugs and not even bother to show up to court since she is not sober. When we were going thru the custody situation, the courts said they could not terminate her rights without terminating the father's. I guess when it has to do with parental rights, if there is not a spouse involved (him and I were obviously not married) it is all or nothing? I found it to be very strange.