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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (6098)3/12/2007 2:23:19 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 10087
 
Is cps not going to be concerned if the mom is still drinking when they consider putting the child back in her care?

The issue isn't that she's an alcoholic. Or even that she's drinking. It's the "other endangerment" that is the problem. If she regularly conks out leaving no one watching the kids, she's endangering them. Leaving small children unsupervised is grounds for removal.

It doesn't matter why she conks out. It could be epilepsy or some other medical problem or some kind of compulsion like video games that causes her to be out of pocket when she should be engaged. Not all alcoholics conk out. And of the ones who do, not all of them fail to recognize the risk and plan for someone else to be there for the kids when they're drinking. The problem is not that the woman in your example is an alcoholic or that she drinks. The problem is that she leaves the kids unsupervised, for whatever reason. In this case, the problem could probably be solved if she just quit drinking, but the criterion is not the alcoholism, itself.
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