meth is hitting rural communities hard. Out here in middle of nowhere, ohio, we are seeing more and more meth and meth crimes. Where there are drugs, there is crime. The worst being addicts commiting armed home invasions to steal anything they think they can sell.
I wish drugs like Meth and herion left women infertile, so this would not happen to these children. Now they are wards of the state, will most likely not be adopted because of mental health issues, grow up and turn around to repeat their parents mistakes....
Yep,
first it was the crack babies flooding the system, now it's the kids whose parents are on meth.
I really wish there was someway to keep these folks from having more kids.
Seems all the wrong folks can have gobs of kids.
I've worked with another family, in which there are 4 adult siblings; 3 female and 1 male, all under 30...and all addicted to meth. All of the women had children. The youngest sister lost her last child to CPS when it was born addicted to meth. (My understanding is that she had another one that she'd lost previously). The oldest and the middle sisters lost their children to CPS when the children were found to have been exposed to hard porn and committing sex acts on each other (ages of the children: 2- 8). The oldest of those children, a girl, is scared to death of looking like a girl. There is suspicion that these children were being used for internet kiddie porn.
The rights of the oldest mother were terminated a few months back. There is a termination hearing on the middle mom tomorrow. Her 3 children, all by different men, are currently with their respective fathers. The youngest of the moms was found dead in her home recently. The youngest of the siblings, the brother, just got out of prison on meth related charges and has made death threats against those who put him there.
And that is just in one family...although 3 separate CPS cases. I can't imagine what family get togethers are like in that family. I sometimes wonder what the mother of these addicts thinks.
Same where I lived in the middle of nowhere Missouri. It was rural, it seems to hit rural areas worse. You don't have neighbors who report the strange smell coming from the neighbors house when they live 1/4 mile away.
Now, I can't say I appreciate vigilantism but there was a house a few miles from where I lived, the man was in jail but his woman was apparently still dealing. The house burned (it was a rundown piece of crap, should have long been condemned), there was a little rumor going around town that the neighbors did not appreciate having meth dealers around their kids. Probably just a rumor. I understand cooking meth is highly explosive, maybe the neighbors just wanted to take credit.