Kcoral88
Dec 10, 2007, 06:55 PM
Okay, so I am not the parent here, I am the sister.
My whole family is absolutely to the end of our ropes with my 25 year old brother. He is an alcoholic moocher. He has lived with my parents his whole life, he does not pay rent, it is like pulling teeth to ask him to do anything around the house. As well, he has two DWIs under his belt, and does not currently have his license. He acts like he deserves everything handed to him... and this is after he has had every opportunity in the world and basically ruined it for himself. My parents have offered to pay each of my brothers and my college tuitions for us, but took that offer back from my brother shortly after they paid for a whole semester and found out when they finally got the grades that he did not attend even one class. After this, my father allowed him to work at our family business where he did well for awhile, then my father was forced to fire him because he stole from the business.
As of late, my brother is still living at home, my parents, grandparents, and myself, when I am home from college are driving him to work and his friends houses. He is attending drug and alcohol counseling, as well as performing community service in accordance with his probation. Two years ago when he got his first DWI, the cops found cocaine in my brothers car. He had said that he had stopped doing that, but two weeks ago, he got brought home by the police because he got caught drinking by his probation officer, it was not until last week, that my parents found out that he had been arrested, and that the police had found cocaine on him again, he was not even man enough to admit it himself, the probation officer had to mention it to my Mom. As well, we found out that 3 months ago he failed his mandatory drug test and it showed that he had cocaine in his system.
I have two questions now that you have heard the background here...
If my brother does not admit to having a problem with both cocaine and alcohol, and the services that the state is offering him are not working... is there anything we can do to help him?
Also, why was he not arrested 3 months ago when cocaine showed up in his system then? Why was no one notified... I know it should not have gotten this far in the first place, but why is the law not doing its job?
My whole family is absolutely to the end of our ropes with my 25 year old brother. He is an alcoholic moocher. He has lived with my parents his whole life, he does not pay rent, it is like pulling teeth to ask him to do anything around the house. As well, he has two DWIs under his belt, and does not currently have his license. He acts like he deserves everything handed to him... and this is after he has had every opportunity in the world and basically ruined it for himself. My parents have offered to pay each of my brothers and my college tuitions for us, but took that offer back from my brother shortly after they paid for a whole semester and found out when they finally got the grades that he did not attend even one class. After this, my father allowed him to work at our family business where he did well for awhile, then my father was forced to fire him because he stole from the business.
As of late, my brother is still living at home, my parents, grandparents, and myself, when I am home from college are driving him to work and his friends houses. He is attending drug and alcohol counseling, as well as performing community service in accordance with his probation. Two years ago when he got his first DWI, the cops found cocaine in my brothers car. He had said that he had stopped doing that, but two weeks ago, he got brought home by the police because he got caught drinking by his probation officer, it was not until last week, that my parents found out that he had been arrested, and that the police had found cocaine on him again, he was not even man enough to admit it himself, the probation officer had to mention it to my Mom. As well, we found out that 3 months ago he failed his mandatory drug test and it showed that he had cocaine in his system.
I have two questions now that you have heard the background here...
If my brother does not admit to having a problem with both cocaine and alcohol, and the services that the state is offering him are not working... is there anything we can do to help him?
Also, why was he not arrested 3 months ago when cocaine showed up in his system then? Why was no one notified... I know it should not have gotten this far in the first place, but why is the law not doing its job?