I've always had an issue with the addiction factor. While some become addicted I think it is a choice at some point that people choose to do drugs or alcohol, and ruin their lives.
I think Dr. Phil is a little hard on the step father, I don't blame him.
. How is this man, the step dad, at fault for their choices? How is he the cause of their injecting junk into their body. Their choices are theirs, not his.
I was abused as badly as anyone could be from 5 until I was 13, in every way a girl can be abused, but I never chose drugs or alcohol. It takes a choice, a wrong choice in their case. I feel the step Father did the right thing. Their biological Mother is the real cause, she created their addiction, and doesn't seem to be much of a Mom. ..from her own tendencies, and habits.
I wouldn't want them near my kids either. Their own Mom is as bad as they are.
Perhaps it sounds cold, but they need to show they are clean and sober and warrant trust around the other child..( step fathers child). I don't have any sympathy for junkies and the one sounds drunk with the slurred speach, what is that about?
If I had to protect another child from one who made bad choices I would make the same choices he did, biology or not.
