What Happens to Kids When Parents Get Addiction Help?
If I were a cop I think one of the most difficult situations I would have to face would be what children of drug addicts go through. Actually, I don’t need to be a cop to see it – I’ve witnessed some of it myself, but nothing as severe as the stories I’ve heard.
What happens to the kids of parents who need addiction help? They get taken care of by court-appointed special advocates (CASA) who do their best to help the parents keep the kids and, if the parents are too destructive, find them another home.
If finding kids another home the right thing to do? As much as some experts agree that being with natural parents is healthy, there’s nothing health about being with parents who are snorting coke, smoking grass, or using speed or heroin. Not only is it a dangerous environment, it is often emotionally unstable, kids don’t get the attention they need, or the quality of family life that ensures they’ll have a good start, and a good future.
There are plenty of people with kids taking drugs. In a sober moment, consider what the ideal would be for raising those kids, and look for addiction help services. The alternative may be, one day, having your kids taken away from you and putting them up for adoption.
addiction help, addiction help services, CASA, children of drug addicts
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I have kids(relatives) from drug abusers. There is no one to listen to me when I tell them the parents are still around drugs and dealers and even living with them. The guardian adlitem has a waiting list. And the kids are still being taken to visit the parents around drugs by another relative> what do I do? There is no help out there for this journey for the kids.
Comment by traci — April 3, 2011 @ 8:06 pm