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    Default Allowing a Minor to Smoke or Drink

    My question involves child abuse or neglect in the State of: TX

    Recently my 13 yr. old son got in trouble for taking alcohol to school and at the present time we are dealing with that issue. But as I was going through his room and things after we got home from school that day I found a cigar in his backpack as well. His mother and I are divorced and I have custody of my son and she has custody of our 11 yr. old daughter. She also has 2 other kids that are 16 but from a previous relationship. I have been told from both of my children that her older daughter smokes and drinks. Anyway, when I asked my son where he got the cigar he said from his older sister.

    On my way to the school that morning to deal with the alcohol thing I called his mother and asked her if she could ask the other kids if they had ever seen my son drink or smoke or anything just so I could more or less know how long this had been going on she said ok and that was it. Next day after anger subsided and all my son tells me that his mother knows that he smokes and lets him. So in my head if she lets him smoke does she also lets him drink or what else does she allow and what can I legally do for my daughter?

    Is that not some sort of form of contributing to a minor?

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    Default Re: Is This Considered Abuse?

    If she knowingly allows drinking/smoking by a minor, yes, that could result in charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. But, at this point, you've only got the word of an 11 year old. Unless mom is going to willingly admit to either a law enforcment officer or a Child Protective Services worker that she does this, you're going to need more than "mom lets me". And keep in mind that wherever a minor is getting the substances from, whether that be mom, or sister, or friends, or whatever, that the minor could also face legal sanctions such as being ordered to a substance abuse program or something similar (assuming she's not FORCING the minor in question to drink and/or smoke, in which case it escalates to child abuse). CPS and law enforcement will see a big distinction between mom leaving easy access to such things where they can be TAKEN and used at will or with ease, versus her PROVIDING the stuff. The former would likely result in an investigation and "parental education" about the seriousness of not taking precautions against the minor getting ahold of the items. The latter would most certainly be accompanied by legal misfortune for mom.

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