I have 2 little sisters around the ages of 10. Their parents are both drug addicts so they live with a family member. They have lived with them for about 5 years. I recently started visiting them in their home. With that being said I see how they are treated. They are miserable they get yelled at all the time. They are called mean names and they are being hit. They are supposedly home schooled but the want to go to a public school. The family member they live with is mental she has in the past abused kids. The people they live with are financially stable and provide for them in that way but they still aren't being treated right. I don't know what to do. Do I just let them stay there till they turn 18 or do I call cps. Someone please give me advice they are my babies and I want to help them. I also don't want to do the wrong thing.

Me and my husband are heading for divorce and I'm taking custody of my kids. I don't have a job, but my husband does. Will the judge present me with enough child support to live on if I can't find a job?

Everything I aspire to do, it feels like I have to get them done to impress or satisfy the "audience" in my life. So I'm straying away from the audience and now I don't feel like I need to impress anyone. I don't go out anywhere. I'm just here in the room alone everyday, I don't shower and sometimes I skip brushing teeth for a day or two. I'm just like "why do I need to shower when no one is going to see me anyway, I don't need to impress anyone or even myself". Please help. It could all end next time.

For Example my mom and dad are workaholics.. My father even after retirement works. My mother has her own business and a job.. My brother also has a time consuming business. I work 2 jobs, as well. we're workaholics. It's such a sad thing.. i don't know why we're like this.

My parents divorced when I was young. My dad would always have multiple girlfriends at one time. Usually 3 or more at the same time. For example, one in the same area we live in, one in another State, and then another one in Europe. Then he would always randomly have them over at different times. I feel like that's setting a pretty bad example. Do you agree?

We've always been close, but as I've gotten older she's become extremely toxic. She forced me to sign over my medical records to her when I turned 18, and gives me the silent treatment for days any time I say anything that isn't what she wants to hear. It's like she wants to have full control over my life forever. I just don't know what to do.

Would you financially support them or help them pay off their debt?

My dad blows everything way out of proportion. My brother dared me to try ONE beer earlier this week and my dad just noticed it was missing and came in our room yelling and lecturing us. Then he started going way off in his own imagination and decided that I was using drugs. Granted, I had in the past but that was literally over a year ago. Next thing, he's yelling for my mom to look around for drugs and I thought it was kinda funny that he was overreacting the way he did so I chuckled. He then assumed that I was laughing bc I was high and started asking what I took. And i reactively snickered again, and to him that was yes. Then, he asked if I took pills, I said no but he already convinced himself that I did and that I was lying. The more I tried to reason with him the more convinced he got. Then he starts trying to make me gag shoving his fudging finger down my throat, so I did it myself. For whatever reason, throwing upconfirmed I was using. Even tho I literally only threw up water. This isnt the first time he snowballed a ridiculous accusation in his head that was completely false but he was so busy "reading" us for deception that he didnt believe us. My mom knows that his accusations get out of hand but he doesnt stop once he believes something and thinks we're trying to "get over on him" and "treating him like he's stupid". Were kinda used to it but I dont know any other dads who are so eager to prove his kids are satanic or something. I cant want till I turn 18.

I know a 15 year old girl who says her parents beat her. Coincidentally, these claims started right after they took her smartphone away. And there are no signs of bruises or other injuries. I remember her parents telling me that she's angry that they grounded her.

My mom just broke a plate into pieces and I heard it shatter and my baby sister is crying. Everything is just such a mess they're screaming at each other.

I'm 26 and I lived with my parents the last 26 years (my whole life). I'm getting married next week and I'm excited about that. And I'm moving out for the first time ever. However, I'm holding back tears of sadness when I think about how I'm moving away from my parents and my younger brother. It sounds childish, but I don't know I honestly feel like crying *I'm a guy, so you're probably thinking im weird for feeling this way.

My son is 14 months old. She yells at him, calls him a cholo and speaks to him like he's a grown man and a POS. I kicked her *** out of my apartment yesterday because she's been showing unacceptable behavior towards him by even telling my niece to "beat his ***" Now my mom's mad at me for asking her to leave. No one seems to care that I don't want her around my son. What should I do?

Im 14 and I get super stressed out over other people's problems. My hearts beats super fast. I get short tempered and often have panic attacks. Usually it's with issues involving my friends and family but sometimes it can be random people on the internet. And it doesnt help that a lot of people, especially my mom, vent to me about how miserable she is. Then I end up feeling guilty like it's my fault that I couldnt help her or do anything to make it better. I just get super worked up, probably more than them. It sometimes gets so bad I feel faint and overwhelmed. I know it sounds lame, especially since I'm a boy. I dont really understand it, like I'm super sensitive or something but it's not even like that. I just feel like I care about things more than I should and it especially bothers me when I cant do anything about it. Please dont be mean.

Like if I feel a panic/anxiety attack starting up. I sometimes try to do breathing exercises because that's what everyone tells me to do. But when I do, I end up feeling dizzy and faint and my ears start ringing, and it doesnt help. In fact I think it makes me feel worst. Is that normal? My sister claimed it's cuz I have weak lungs but idts since I'm just a teenager.

I have a toxic mom who always involves herself in drama in and outside of her workplace. She doesn't have friends & most of our family members cut ties with her because they say she is full of drama. My mom started a job two years ago & had an affair with a co-worker. The affair went bad and the guy she had the affair with began harassing her and eventually assaulted her at work. The guy was terminated & the director of my moms company began blaming her for everything that went wrong in the workplace once they fired her co-worker. Her director began making a difference out of her and other employees. My mom decided to seek legal representation out of fear that she would lose her job because she feels that the director has a personal issue with her. Since then, my mom has talked about the drama on her job to anyone who will listen. As soon as she gets verbally repremanded at work, she becomes paranoid that they are doing it because she's suing the company (which may be true). I am in college and her constant negative conversation is causing me to lose focus. Today I told her that her conversation on a daily is undesirable and is making me want to stay away from her. Even after expressing this, she continued to talk about the people on her job. We went out to dinner & were conversating about something totally different & out of the blue she starts crying and talking about her job. How can I get my mom to move on and stop focusing on negativity? It is ruining our relationship.

Even if it's true. he didn't have to say it to my face and hurt my feelings, he could have kept his opinion to himself, that's why I'm hurt and mad at him, and don't feel like talking to him. BTW, he's 35 years old, it's not like he's a kid that should know better. I'm 2 years younger than him, and he wasn't kidding, he told me at a wedding that my cousins attended. I feel insecure now.

I graduated from college and I have an engineering degree. I graduated 6 months ago. I have a job and I always work 40 hour weeks, but it doesn't pay a lot and it's not closely related to my major. I live with my dad. Every single day he asks "when are you going to get a high paying engineering job"? Then when I don't, he basically calls me worthless, and says he's going to leave me with nothing. I have an interview tomorrow for a high paying engineering job and tonight he said "you better get that job or else". Then when I tell him some of the jobs I apply for have 100 other candidates, he's like "that doesn't mean anything, get the (expletive) job". He has like $5,000,000 and he drives my car. He took like half the gas tank driving around to random places and then when I use his card for gas he's like "woaahhh are you nickle and diming me? That's not fair". I make like $18/hr and he takes a lot of money from me. Also, he always says "I have $5,000,000 and you wont take a dime from me when I retire. I'm going to leave you with nothing". He's said that probably over 1,000 times.

So my grandpa who I was very close with died back in November of 2012 of esophagus cancer. I didn't cry much I just usually don't cry when I grieve. He had a Facebook account and I was going on Facebook and then I saw his profile and just lost it and started crying. Is it normal to grieve this long after it already happened?

Okay, to keep a long story as short as possible, my sister is having some marital problems. She's with me for the summer until they're hopefully sorted out. I love my sister to death, but disciplinarian is not her forte lol. I watch the kids when she works or is out etc anyways... The point is, I have an old dog with thyroid issues. He's on medication and a controlled diet with special food. Anything out of the norm can throw his body out of whack and make him ill, have digestion issues, etc. This was explained in as much kid terms as possible to the kids, and in greater detail to my sister and she know she needs to control them and make sure they do not feed him even a little bit. I made this very clear multiple times and every time we eat I touch base on the subject again and remind them that all animals beg for food but it can be deadly to him if he has it. well when I left the room and they were unsupervised and I came back I saw him munching on something, no toys, food of his, or treats were left out So, I asked who fed him and nobody would fess up. I asked once more, telling them if nobody fesses up its bed time, early still no takers, so I sent them all to bed with the remainder of their dinner uneaten. They had snacks, breakfast and lunch throughout the day it's not like I starved them; but when my sister got home from work she was soo mad. Was I wrong in this situation?

I am almost 17, parents won't let me. How can I convince them?

I grew up with both my mother and father. My mom and dad had joint custody of me and my sister so we seen our dad every other weekend. When i was little my dad was amazing i looked at him like a superhero. He was funny, he joked around, was playful etc but of course he would still discipline us. My mom was and still is the same way (playful, goofy and funny as hell). Around 8th grade till now (I'm in college) it's not the same any more my dad is more serious he doesn't play around with us or joke with us like he used to. If I tell a joke or something he's serious and I have to tell him "it's a joke dad" and then he'll laugh. I'm not a serious person, I must take that from my moms side but I'm serious when I need to be. When me and my sister get an award or graduate or do something good it's always just a "good job" but when we would do something bad he would have a whole speech prepared. i don't know it's just not the same as when I was a kid I'm so distant from my dad I don't even know his favorite food, movie, color or anything. I thought maybe it's just me but my sister is distant from him too. For our birthdays he sends us a happy birthday text and that's it. I have a lot of pain from how me and my dad's relationship is I just need some advice please help!!

I have a 17 year old son who I'm planning to kick out on his 18th birthday. He just came out to us confirming that he's an atheist. This is unacceptable. We raised him better than that. Me and my husband decided that it's best to kick him out because we can't have any atheist living in a house that has God's presence. It would be very ungodly.

I got into a fight with my bf on his 19th birthday. We often fight alot because he is stupid and says mean things like he hates the way I am and calls me BS names. He has no regard for my feelings sometimes but other times we cant live without each other. Since he's obviously a guy his voice is deep and when he gets angry he yells a lot. But that doesnt work for me because I'm not loud enough, even when I try to be he doesnt take me seriously so I sometimes push him around and hit him bc that's really all I can do in a heated argument. If my voice were loud enough for him to respond I would never have to hit him. Anyway, on his birthday, all his friends were around and he wanted to look tough in front of them while we had an argument so he shoved me away from me and pretended I wasnt there the whole time. Then when i brought it up later and told him it was abusive, he started acting like it wasnt a big deal and I was overreacting. His justification was that that we argue all the time and since I hit him it makes it ok. His parents obviously never taught him common sense about hitting girls.

Just found out that my sister started doing cocaine. She has 2 kids ages 13 and 15. The father is a deadbeat and I am reluctant to report her to child services because her kids are at the age where they most likely won't be adopted and I don't want them moving from one foster home to the another because foster kids usually end up with emotional problems. I would take them but my husband says we can't handle any more kids, which is true. My parents also live very far away and are extremely old so I don't know if they could take on two teenagers. Should I just let this go?

I have a toxic mom who always involves herself in drama in and outside of her workplace. She doesn't have friends & most of our family members cut ties with her because they say she is full of drama. My mom started a job two years ago & had an affair with a co-worker. The affair went bad and the guy she had the affair with began harassing her and eventually assaulted her at work. The guy was terminated & the director of my moms company began blaming her for everything that went wrong in the workplace once they fired her co-worker. Her director began making a difference out of her and other employees. My mom decided to seek legal representation out of fear that she would lose her job because she feels that the director has a personal issue with her. Since then, my mom has talked about the drama on her job to anyone who will listen. As soon as she gets verbally repremanded at work, she becomes paranoid that they are doing it because she's suing the company (which may be true). I am in college and her constant negative conversation is causing me to lose focus. Today I told her that her conversation on a daily is undesirable and is making me want to stay away from her. Even after expressing this, she continued to talk about the people on her job. We went out to dinner & were conversating about something totally different & out of the blue she starts crying and talking about her job. How can I get my mom to move on and stop focusing on negativity? It is ruining our relationship.

My brother in law has an 8 year old daughter who lives with her mom and doesn't feel safe. Her mom is an alcoholic and intimidates her daughter into being scared of her father. Her mother has majority custody. Recently there was a DCF call from her own daughter after her mom had passed out drunk and then was about to drive her somewhere. The police came and arrested her mother and his daughter was able to stay with him for about 2 weeks. Now the judge has ordered she be returned to her mother, and she absolutely broke down talking a lie how unsafe she feels and crying that she doesn't want to go back to her mom. Is there a way a child as young as 8 can choose a parent because of safety issues? They're in Chicago.

My mom thinks firstborns should discipline the younger siblings. My little brother is stealing and lying. Like any other normal person, I tell him not to steal from other kids, but I won't enforce consequences as if I'm his mom. I don't show these bad behaviours myself. I don't think he needs a second mom when he already has two parents who should be doing the job (our dad works a lot, but he's still around ).

and Shoulders? I'm broke and need money to go to Rite-Aid.

A family member passed away a week ago and we are still waiting on the church to give us the go ahead for a service date. But...I want to submit an obit to two different papers. How can this be done without a final services date? Something like "services pending"??

My daughter is too easily manipulated and simple minded. Her younger brothers have used their wits against her. To clarify, my oldest has very mild Autism but as she got older, she does not need much extra support anymore. She has no trouble making friends and fits in with peers. To most people, my daughter seems a little immature for her age but is overall normal like any other 16 year old. My only concern is that she is not aware of grooming, manipulation and being taken advantage of. She knows what they are but doesn't know what the signs are, and how to protect herself from it. Obviously, no parent can be with their teen 24/7. You have to let them grow up someday, otherwise you're setting them up for failure.

I have 3 brothers who are older than me. Mom shows my off to everyone an she controls everyone at home an if she knew I was on here she would take away my computer an ground me. My friends say your mom is so cool but they dont know what my life is like. When mom yells at me for mistakes she makes she blames me an when she publicly posts my pics on Facebook instagram i receive messages from older boys from school they say im hot they ask me to have sex an Im a virgin. Boys try to touch me in school all because mom posts pics of me i deleted my Facebook an Instagram so she wont tag me. I wish I can talk to dad about it all but he's always so sad an I don't want to make him more sad

I come from an extremely family oriented culture with very strong family ties.