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How Should I Respond to My Daughter? ?

  • Posted on February 1, 2011 at 1:21 pm

We’ve kept her son for 2 years. Suddenly, she thinks we should take him back to her when she has NO job, NO car, NO income and quit her last job after 6 hours plus smoked crack most of 2008. Her dad pays her rent and cell phone. She has been in her apt for one month.
She said, “where’s a knife? I want my baby back.” He’s ten and wants to stay with us. What should my excuse be for keeping him? She says she needs NO income because she eats all her meals at the homeless shelter next door!!! She lives in a rough neighborhood while we live in a gated community with school bus at our mailbox. I need one solid reply to her. You can’t “discuss” reasons because she starts yelling and her voice gets distorted. She’s obviously unstable but would never know it or admit it. The cocaine started when her boyfriend started moving away from her and she began stalking him by phone-50 calls a day. But, she’d say, that doesn’t mean she can’t care for her son. She goes, “don’t u think he should be with his mother?” but if I ask any questions she never answers; she just yells.

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