My step kids don’t bathe when they’re at their mother’s home. They’ll go for a full week without bathing. When they come to my house they stink and their hair is greasy. They stink up the house. The 11 year old boy is allowed to wear filthy pajamas and smelly slippers in public. He had lice. CPS says that’s not neglect and there’s nothing they can do about it. We make them bathe which makes them so angry they go to their mother’s house and report us for sexual abuse. So far we’ve been reported eight times, each time unfounded.
Why isn’t it neglect?