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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry for the position you may end up in, OP.

I've seen this play out in my own family with my aunt and cousin.  My cousin, also an addict, has 5 kids by 5 different guys and custody of none of them.  My aunt has custody of kids 1-3 (all have developmental issues b/c of the drugs) and #4 is being raised by the dad's parents who have custody (dad isn't in the picture - is in prison).  The 5th child is being raised by the dad.  He met my cousin during a 6 month period when she was clean and really making the effort to stay clean.  My cousin graduated from the rehab program she was in in another state and decided to stay there in a transitional sober house.  Everyone had such high hopes for her that time because she'd never put that extra effort in after leaving rehab.  She met the baby's father at a coffee shop where she was working and didn't really tell him about her past.  He broke up with her due to her erratic behavior, which of course, was her using again, but he didn't know that.  He also didn't know that she was pregnant and neither did my aunt.  She had left the transitional housing by that point and was crashing with random people.  Baby #5 has the most severe developmental delays because she used heavily during most of her pregnancy but was clean for the birth.  My aunt found out about baby #5 when my cousin was arrested for solicitation and was contacted by the police and DCFS.  My aunt flew out and got the name of the baby's father from my cousin.  She contacted him, told him my cousin's backstory, and he immediately stepped up.

Luckily, my cousin had to have a hysterectomy about a year later so she can't pop out anymore kids.    [/quote]

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