Everyone’s enabling–subjecting the child to great risk
Dear Doug: Closet Abuser
Dear Doug:
My wife, with whom I am going through a divorce and battling over custody of our 7-year-old, would love take my child away. If I asked for proof of paternity, she might succeed, because she continuously cheated on me and the child might not be mine. She wants alimony and child support, which she would lose if our son is proven to be someone else's, and I don't bring it up.
The trouble is my wife provides no supervision for our child when he is with her. He goes for days without bathing or even changing clothes, he's lucky to get macaroni for dinner and he has been seen by neighbors in her front yard ...
