Ok, here is the situation. I used to be really good friends with Tom. Tom wasn’t the greatest character in the world to hang out with. Lazy, mooched off of his parents, made every excuse in the book not to go to work, or get a legitimate job, and is in his twenties. Then, he meets this girl, who had a 5 year old kid, never graduated HS, no GED, mooched off of her parents, never worked, never even got a driver’s license, admitted to smoking crack when her son was two, and after 3 months of dating, he moves her and her son into his parents’ house. Here comes the real kicker, he wants to have a child with her. Now, mind you they are filthy, I mean beer bottle with cigarette butts in them, turned over, never cleaned up ashtrays, clothing everywhere, dirty food containers, used condoms, just grossness in the bedroom… that they shared with her son!!! So I tell him, before you guys get married and have children, get a real job, an apartment and be independent, and clean. He said “Yeah, yeah, yeah, I will, I really will.” He pops the question a month later, and, she is pregnant. He was still not working. I stop talking to him after I screamed my head off.
Now, she never quit smoking cigarettes, and smoked her entire pregnancy, they lived with his parents, she has the baby, and less then a year later, they want another baby and get pregnant again, they get kicked out and move back into her parents ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT!!!! Tom’s sister moves back in and cleans the room they were in. Dirty diapers mixed in with clothing, cigarette butts everywhere, insects crawling all over, it was disgusting.
Tom’s wife never applied for government assistance, (she came up with the excuse that she wasn’t eligible) so they were living on her father’s wages, because she is just like mom, lazy, never worked, never even drove, does nothing, and whatever cash Tom brings home form working measly jobs for cash. No hot water in the apartment, she is still smoking, and the apartment also has 3 rabbits and two cats. So finally, Tom’s sister helps out with all the assistance paperwork and all this stuff, and the other baby is born…. with cystic fibrosis. Mind you, the other kid is in and out of the hospital with severe asthma, and no one cleans the apartment with the animals in it!!!! Tuesday, I get a phone call from our mutual friend, DYFUS took away the kids.
My question: Am I wrong to be happy that the kids were taken away and might be adopted out if those two don’t clean up their act? I mean, he is 28, she is 26, and they are dirty, and the kids are sick. If I am called to court as a character witness, would it be wrong of me to say they shouldn’t get the kids back? Is it so important that children be with their parents, versus children being in a stable, healthy environment instead? What is your opinion on the situation?
Update:
Just found out that the apartment was so filthy, that the DYFIS workers had to run out and throw up. The kids were found malnurished as well.