Hello Paul, a story like this is so tragic but I'm glad the boy has an
oportunity to stay in a stable home. Our neighbor downstairs is in a similar
situation. She's 32 and a non stop drunkard, living with some drugged up
alcoholic of a boy friend. The child, who is 5 has to see her mother
constantly either drunk, stoned or sick. pray for this family too. Kerri.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Ferguson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: PRAISE ABOUT MP AND CHILD CUSTODY


> Paul,
>
> That's so sad when parents are so messed up on drugs. Do they deserve to
> have their children when they are that way? I'll pray for the little boy
> that he gets to spend more time with your MP friend, and that he gets
total
> custity of the child.
>
> Praying for you all.
>
> Please pray that Vernon gets back soon. It's five PM and he's not back
yet.
>
> Love,
> Pat Ferguson
>
> At 03:29 PM 12/11/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hey, Family
> >
> >An update and praise about the MP and child custody.  To catch you up, my
> >buddy the MP who helped me so much when I was sick has been in Korea for
> >half a year.  Just before he left he started raising his 3-year-old
nephew
> >because the unwed mother is a druggie and transient.  Just after he left
the
> >boy's mother fought the custody and is trying to get the boy back full
time.
> >The MP came back this week and they went to court for custody.
> >
> >The mother hasn't improved her lifestyle but wants the boy fulltime but
the
> >judge said no, she can have him for visitation but he will remain with my
> >friend the MP and his wife and children in a stable homelife he has come
to
> >know.  The mother wanted him for Christmas but the judge determined he
> >should spend Christmas with his new family and she will have him a few
days
> >later.  Her father (my buddy's brother) is also a homosexual who is HIV
> >positive and on probation for bringing drugs across the border.  That
(the
> >boy's grandfather) is the person the mother brings the boy to spend time
> >with, and lets the boy drink from the grandfather's cup and eat from his
> >plate.  (She did the same thing when she was sick with the flu with her
own
> >cups and dishes.)  She has another child, a daughter, who is being raised
by
> >her mother, so that child (a girl) thinks her grandmother is her mother.
> >
> >Anyway, bottom line in all this mess is that the boy will remain most of
the
> >time, including Christmas, with my friend and his family and the messed
up
> >mother will only have visitation for several days at a time.  The boy
> >doesn't even want that.  He wants to wake up with his new Daddy and Mommy
in
> >the morning, not with the misfit mother.  So pray he will be able to deal
> >with this trauma.
> >
> >Paul