My husband and I are in a custody battle for my husband's nephew. My husband and I have raised this child for more then have of his life. He was always 'dumped' off with us, for months at a time (not that we minded, of course) when his parents were fighting and just couldn't find the time to be parents. Selfish, selfish human beings. His brother is pretty much a dead beat and won't take care of his own son, relying on everyone else to raise his child (and taking the credit too) and his mother is mentally unstable being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, ptsd, adhd and others (no one really knows because she lies to her dr's to get meds, all her dr's) and she's a cutter (which she has done in front of her son MULTIPLE times, the last time requiring 6 internal stitches and 13 external stitches, that I have pics of if anyone is interested, I had to take care of her that day and she ended up totaling her jeep and in a coma for a month because she kept over taking her medication) and an abuser that is also drawn to abusive relationships, has an addictive personality (whether it be prescription meds like klonopin or pain killers or muscle relaxers, cocaine, shopping, doing x, raving, sex with people other then her current relationship or multiple people at a time). She also comes from a physically and mentally abusive family, a stepfather she claims raped her and her mother still married and had children with. And a controlling father that flips the **** out with things don't go his way. As of right now she has the child in her procession. Our nephew was staying at his fathers house with the babysitter and our nephews mother broke into the house, trespassing, assaulting the babysitter and taking the child to her new husbands house. Cops were called, nothing we can really do. She's his mother and there are no orders saying who has custody. So we are in a court battle. She is telling her son that my husbands brother is NOT his daddy and he is to call him by his name and not daddy anymore. He's supposed to call her new husband 'daddy'. She's told him not to trust me anymore. She tells him that his old daddy beats her up and put the hole in throat (from her trech hole from the breathing tube). That is old daddy is a bad, bad man. Our nephew also watched her slice her arm open, over take her medication and acting non-responsive to any type of physical stimulation to try and wake her after she got her stitches. She's told him that he's not allowed to talk about such things and he's scared to go against anything she says. She can seriously snap out of nowhere. Ect, ect. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, what I am looking for is a child therapist that I could get an appointment for on a Saturday so we can have him evaluated. We are very worried about him and are trying to get him out of her home and back into ours as soon as we can. He says that this is his home, he doesn't really like living with mommy and her husband.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Anyone that they like and are great with your kids or kids you know? Please HELP!!
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