A Child Is Not A Weapon!

I was speaking with a female friend yesterday. A couple of months ago her daughter gave birth to her first grandchild.

Not long after the baby was born the mother and, more specifically, the father, returned to their addictions. Mom could very well be a “social” experimenter but Dad is certainly one of “us.” He has come and gone a number of times in the last 9 years yet has not been able to remain clean or sober.

Within a short time, the baby’s parent’s had resorted to calling in bogus prescriptions for xanax, again. The law enforcement community here knows the father to the extent that he has been banned from filling prescriptions in any pharmacy in the county, yet they tried.

They were caught. Not exactly rocket science…

Grandma was forced to borrow a large amount of money to keep her daughter, the mom, out of jail. She hired an attorney.

Somehow the child’s parent’s got the idea that Grandma made some phone calls to “indict” her son-in-law and have him punished. I’m not against helping someone hit their bottom personally but that actually isn’t the real point.

With the perception that her mother called in against him, the daughter and SIL caught a resentment and turned the baby into a weapon. They placed the child in the middle of a dispute and told Grandma she would never see her grandchild again.

Lame. Unbelievably lame and disgusting. Self-centered in the absolute extreme. Almost unforgivable.

How about considering the child? Is that what is really in the best interest of the baby? You people placed yourselves in the position of using around this baby. That is bad enough by itself. You go to jail and what happens to that baby. He winds up in Grandma’s custody anyway, hopefully.

But to use the child as a weapon against the grandparent? Truly bad news.