Never married father wants custody of infant son
My son is 24 and never married. Because of the unsteadiness of his job (house repairs) he still lives at home. I don't mind I have a large house with 3 bedrooms that would not be in use. He just recently found out a girl he wasn't with long had a child and after DNA testing was determined the father. The baby is 5 months old. The mother was on serious drugs when she dated my son and even has bragged about sleeping with men for drugs in my sons car and truck when my son was working. She now lives with another boyfriend's parents. Neither of them have a job and she says she is pregnant again. The situation seems very bad for this baby. My son has gone through and graduated from drug rehab for pot. He is concerned about his son's welfare while with this girl. I am too. The more I hear about her the more I worry. Now she wants us to visit the baby but because I was ill we didn't go last week. I felt as a teacher if I wouldn't go to school and be around children sick I shouldn't spread my germs around my grandson. She said we could see the baby this weekend but then she never returned our calls about when to come over. My son said this is her way of getting back because we didn't do what she wanted the first time. My son would like to get full custody of the child or at least shared custody where he would have the child 2 weeks and then she would have him 2 weeks. My husband and I have agreed to make a bedroom a nursery for my grandson and that my husband who ran an daycare with me and was certified for day care some years ago is home during the day while I teach and then I am home when he works evenings. We agreed to help my son to take care of our grandchild while he works. My question is what dose my son needs to do to get custody or shared custody of his child? We live in Ohio.