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okay... my nephew is a little shit, but he's also my buddy.
my brother has 8 felonies. my nephew's mother has several child endangerment charges including totaling a car while drunk with my nephew in the back. another one, she was passed out on her bathroom floor on ecstasy and cocaine while my nephew cried into the night, full diaper, hungry. she's had both of her children taken away from her, and she's pregnant again. with an abusive boyfriend.
my brother just got his second DUI. he is in jail until the 25th and has a "sensor" ankle bracelet making him unable to drink. he's a very verbally abusive father, literally SCREAMING at this poor kid for simple things like not finishing his sandwich or having the tv too loud when playing his video games.
i see history repeating itself in him. his father and mother however are both wrapped up in who my mother was. i don't want him to have the life that i had to live through, and i feel that i am in a position to ensure that doesn't happen.
i feel i can end the chain of abuse. my question to all of you is... what can i do? i feel that i am able to take and maintain a healthy environment for him, that i can provide for him both physically and mentally. what are my options? what can i do to make sure this child has a GOOD life, not being screamed at by his fatehr and neglected by his mother. i know i'm not a genetic parent, but there's gotta be something i can do to save him. it's killing me to have to watch this. i love him so much, it hurts to be on the outside of this...
my brother has 8 felonies. my nephew's mother has several child endangerment charges including totaling a car while drunk with my nephew in the back. another one, she was passed out on her bathroom floor on ecstasy and cocaine while my nephew cried into the night, full diaper, hungry. she's had both of her children taken away from her, and she's pregnant again. with an abusive boyfriend.
my brother just got his second DUI. he is in jail until the 25th and has a "sensor" ankle bracelet making him unable to drink. he's a very verbally abusive father, literally SCREAMING at this poor kid for simple things like not finishing his sandwich or having the tv too loud when playing his video games.
i see history repeating itself in him. his father and mother however are both wrapped up in who my mother was. i don't want him to have the life that i had to live through, and i feel that i am in a position to ensure that doesn't happen.
i feel i can end the chain of abuse. my question to all of you is... what can i do? i feel that i am able to take and maintain a healthy environment for him, that i can provide for him both physically and mentally. what are my options? what can i do to make sure this child has a GOOD life, not being screamed at by his fatehr and neglected by his mother. i know i'm not a genetic parent, but there's gotta be something i can do to save him. it's killing me to have to watch this. i love him so much, it hurts to be on the outside of this...
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is it worth getting the authorities involved?
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On the other hand, you could offer to take him to make life easier on them. What are the odds they would take you up on that?