pia.navarro518
May 27, 2011, 08:13 AM
What are the legal liabilities of both parents who abandon their children? My brother left his children with his common law wife. After several months, his wife brought his children to our parents under the pretense that she would be looking for a job but never came back. My parents tried contacting my brother's wife but she replied by saying that she would be taking her children back only when she gets a job. She said that since my brother left her, that it was my parents and my (as the sister) to take care of her children. My parents are both in their 70s and are not capable of taking care of small children. I am married and have 2 children of my own. What can my parents and I do to make at least the mother ( my brother is a drug-addict) take responsibility of her children since she is staying with a relative who is financially capable of helping her? Please advise.