I guess to start I'll say that my daughters father is in prison and has been since Jan. 2012, and my daughter was born in Oct. 2011 so she has had basically zero relationship with her dad. Her father and I had an abusive relationship, both physically and mentally, and he has always had a very bad drug problem. I left him to try to keep my daughter from going through the same thing I did as a child, having parents who are drug addicts. My concern, with his release coming up pretty soon, how should i handle his contact with my daugter if any at all. I mean i never want to keep my daughter from her father and if he can stay sober i would love for them to have a relationship. But knowing that the road to sobriety is often very rocky i have doubts that he has changed at all. im afraid that him being around her will do more harm than good. Insight please.......
I agree with this also.
Quoting mom2gr8tgirls:Exactly. Make sure you have some sort of court order requiring supervised, limited visits until he can prove he's sober and has his temper under control.
Quoting jessi2girls:I would fight for supervised visitations only on the grounds of him remaining sober...
If he can stay sober for x amount of years (say 3-5 years), and has had anger management rehab and such, then you would consider lifting the supervised visits..
People are so inconsiderate! What would you have done?
- happymomma112
on Sep. 19, 2012 at 1:35 PM