I've Been A Parent...

...for upwards of 24 years. So I kinda feel qualified to speak about how parenting works.

If the officials decide to take your kid away and make them a ward of the state you've pretty much failed as a parent. I don't care how you try to spin it. Blame it on the father, blame it on the kid or blame it on circumstances. You just fucked up, plain and simple. You can try to assuage your conscience all you want but when you look in the mirror all you should see is what's really starring back at you. A narcissist. Plain and simple. Your son pegged you. You're just too damned wrapped up in yourself to see it. I called you on it months ago. It's come home to roost. Good riddance. I feel sorry for him, though, because you don't have the guts to step up and take responsibility for what has happened to him. Your solution is to always take him back to his father and let him deal with it, which of course he can't. So the cycle continues. And you wonder why the kid is fucked up. Go figure.