*Woman openly admits to being a horrible person* Judge: Must’ve been the wind

The system is so unfair. The "mom" can be a literal meth head with multiple arrests and yet somehow will still gain custody of the child while the dad destroys his body and soul just trying to see his kids. It's fucking tragic.

Just talked to one of my clients yesterday who got divorced after he found out his wife was having an affair. He makes less than $50k/year, she makes over $200k/year, they have 50/50 joint custody of their child, yet the court ordered HIM to pay over half of his income in child support to the wife. You can't make this shit up. The amount of cases like this just silently flying under the radar is sickening. The judges who order these sentences to men need to be publicly shamed and held accountable for each ludicrous decision they make.

Wife - “I buy crack” Judge - “I’m glad you support black businesses” 😂

As a child of divorced parents, let me tell you this video is almost 100% accurate lmao

Wife: "openly admits that she committed multiple crimes" Judge: "you're so brave"

I pay child support and don't see my son at all, last time I seen him he was 8 he turns 12 this month. His mom up and decided she didn't want me to see him at all anymore, changed her number, moved and blocks me on all social media and tells her family to stop relaying my attempts to reach out to her for my son. And she still receives my child support...This is a evil world, loaded with evil people.

I personally feel like this judge went lightly. If it was FEMALE JUDGE he'd get the death sentence and still be required to pay that $70K a week. He is soo lucky.

Inmate: "What're you in for?" Griffy: "Killed a judge with his own gavel." Inmate: "Ah. Family court then."

"Thank you for supporting black businesses." I done nearly died at that part 🤣

I’ve paid 1200 a month for the past 6yrs. On top of about 20k in arrears. And oh, she hasn’t let me see my kid since 2017 💀 constant court proceedings and lawyer fees put me another 20k in the negative. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t suicidal for quite some time. I’m in a better headspace now, but the system is fucked to hell..

I went through this. It was horrible. Years of fighting. But miraculously last year my ex gave the kids to me as long as she doesn't pay child support and my can stop. Now my kids are with me and loved and I don't pay her a cent. Greatest miracle of my life.

The complete disregard for her open malice is like sugar in icing. Wouldn't be icing without it.

Dad had a stable job, was raising the daughter. Mom was living separately, doing odd jobs, travelling around. Suddenly mom decided she wanted to be the parent now, an ONLY parent. Going to court, throwing out accusations - of course she won. And as a bonus the dad was banned of any access to the daughter. Soon after he took his life. The mother is scot-free, the father is dead, the daughter is traumatized for life and will forever hate her mother.

When I was in high school I was dating a girl whose dad had to pay her mother $2.6k per child a month in child support on top of paying for her cheerleading activities, she bought me a playstation 3 when it first came out with her money. At that moment I knew what was up.

My sister is adopted and she was given to my parents when she was about 2 months by her birth mom (we’ll call Trish) cause Trish knew them and that they’d give her a good home. Fast forward about 8 years later and the Trish came back to take my sister away to be with her. My parents (who have 5 birth kids and have been together around 42 years as of 2023) thought there was no way the judge would take away a girl from the only family she’d known her whole life. But apparently the judge said that’s exactly what he was going to do. Go figure my Trish was not mother material because she apparently smoked drugs whilst “taking care” of her, as well as just straight saying she was going to take my sister from my family. All this culminated in my sister telling the Psychologist she had been seeing that she would throw herself out of the car if she had to go back with Trish again, to which the Psychologist told my parents saying that he believed her. So my parents went against the court order and took our family in our motorhome and stayed on the drive way of a family friend in the foothills near the city we live in. Upon returning to the court my dad told the judge it was solely his idea and he made my mom go along with it so that way they couldn’t throw her in jail as well. Judge ended up sending the case to a higher form of court or something (basically actual evidence had to be gathered on the various parents, their living situations, jobs and income, how they act independently as well as around the child, etc rather than just relying on the word of each party) Eventually a 3rd independent psychologist wrote a report basically saying that splitting my sister from us would be nothing short of cruel. And it was at that point that Trish and her lawyer gave up. The only thing that really gets me about this is that my sister (who’s around 26 now) still has emotional trauma from her mother.

I remember when my ex wife tried me on this. She hated working, but due to some unknown reason she decided she was gonna divorce me and she did, taking my child and when the court ruled I would have to pay 1,000 dollars in child support, I didn't pay, I instantly stopped working. Got grabbed by the courts a month later where they asked why I wasn't paying child support so I gave them an honest answer. If I'm not with the wife and can't see the child and you don't monitor where it's going, then I'm not gonna pay that 1000 dollars. Funny enough, I got sent to jail for a year and they wanted me to get a job and start paying, and because I was tired of the bull I agreed at the cost of a paternity test. Turns out that the little bastard wasn't even my child. All I got was an apology from the court. And to make it worse, the bitch got with someone and was living perfectly fine without my money, and the child was being raised by her sister.

The system is so broken that one lady literally admitted she only uses his husband for money, and could get a job but chooses to live off her husband. And the judge still gave her a raise in child support. Because he made enough income. The child support was over 100,000.

This is to accurate and it's sad.

Women: nah, I use the money to go party with my friends in bars and get more men and sue them for child support Judge: wow, you are so brave. Men: I pay 50,000$ a month for a child I did not intend to have, yet she kept it, cheated on me, & I was abused for years. Judge: Do I give a shit? No!

The sad thing is this is true. The judicial system is absolutely bias. Dad can be holding a steady job, have good money, clean record, etc. Yet the mom can be a literal crack head, have no job, and be a straight dead beat. Yet mom gets custody. And dad is made to be a villain

As a single dad that riased two boys on my own while their mother left us to "find herself", I can attest to this video being mostly....if not ALL true! It's alright though, what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger.

This man is trying to help us with his comedy 😂💀

I'm forced to pay child support for two kids that the mother's won't allow me to see... This is very accurate.

I’m so glad people with a platform are talking about mens issues like this. Even though its a skit, most people never even bring it up. Thank you for making this.

I love how everyone can just laugh men's issues away, while we're forced to keep working on woman's self made issues

This is a safe place my brothas , feel safe to speak

My father was the one in my family that taught me almost everything I know, and who was always a guide for myself and my sisters throughout our entire lives. He's never been perfect, he made some mistakes, but he always made sure we were safe, comfortable, and supported. My parents told us they were going to divorce when I was a junior in high school. I'm 21 now. They're still going to court every few months. My mother wants to bleed him for everything he's worth. I love her, but she hasn't always been there for me emotionally, and she tried to turn me against my father, who has always been my role model and the only friend I had as a kid when other kids in school avoided me. When I told her I had faith in him she guilt-tripped me for months and yelled at me telling me basically I wasn't being a good son. My father still to this day only wants what's good for his children, but gets treated like the bad guy, and most of our family, both her side and his won't even talk to him because all the slander she put out to everybody.

This was essentially how my case went, we worked out an agreement where I paid her $200 a month and was late one month and she filed against me because she “needed” more money, went to court, and because of the difference in our pay, my child support was set at $556 a month for one child, she found another job working part time and we ended up going back to court, with me making $16.50/hr full time and her making $13/hr part time, my child support went down by $5 a month

After their divorce my Mother went full psycho on my Dad. I was too young at the time to understand the full ramifications of things she was asking me to do, believe, and say I now I have to forever live with the knowledge that I hated him for so long because of her lies, he is the only person I could ever really trust, the only person who has ever loved me unconditionally and she brainwashed me into hating him while she made him pay ridiculous amounts of money so that she could buy clothes and cigarettes. I remember she’d have me lay down in the back of her Jeep while she’s spy on my Dad’s apartment. She insisted he had been cheating.. but he told a very different story, about how she had been spending all of the money like crazy, how she refused to work. It wasn’t until she did it to me that I realized he had been telling the truth the entire time. She came to me crying, admitted that she had stolen her sibling’s inheritance and owed them as well as many lenders quite a lot of money. She knew I had a massive college fund set up by my late Grandparents and convinced me to let her use a little bit of it. She stole every penny. It wasn’t just that though, there were a lot of terrible things she did, some I probably would have been justified in killing her over. Come to think of it I probably should have. It wouldn’t have made me happy but maybe it would all hurt less now. The worst part though is the guilt I felt about how my Dad had been treated. He’d been nothing but absolutely honorable through it all and treated me so graciously despite my attitude towards him and constant questioning. He never once hated her, not like me, not like how she felt about him. He always said and you could see it in his eyes that he still loved her and even now in his old age he tells me that if he could he’s liked to have saved her. He is without a doubt the most honorable man I’ve ever met and I’m disgusted with myself that I have been unable to live up to the legacy he created. He didn’t deserve any of the hell she put him through and yet despite all that he persevered and smiled, he regained the vast wealth she had squandered and lived prosperously without her.

Sister strung up a guy for child support for a kid she knew wasn't his for 4 or so years. Severed all contact after she couldn't milk him. Guy still considered them his child. My mother actively would feed her bs to cheat the legal system, telling her you will get away with this because you are the mother, they will take your side, just lie to them like this. Have been stalked by her boyfriends she actively cheated on, same guy trying to break into my bedroom window to learn about a kids she already aborted with out his knowledge. Had to lie to his face and say she miscarried because I didn't want to hurt the man with the truth she aborted in large part due to its possible skin color. If I never see either my sister or my mother for the rest of my life I'll consider it a blessing.

My friend had this happen to him. He knew his ex was trying to get his savings, but he went to the bank and cashed all his savings and gave them to me. I'm still holding on to the money and 7 years left until I give them back.

I live in Europe. 21 years ago this happened to me. Starting with the whole "you'll speak when I tell you to" from the female judge. I paid alimony for 18 years and my ex-girlfriend always found excuses to prevent me from seeing my daughter and spent years turning her against me, to a point where I couldn't see her anymore as she refused to see me. It broke my heart. Later, when I spoke to the judge about it, her answer was "not my f**king problem".

"I have to pay child support" , usually means , "I have to give money to my ex who is a child mentally"

I've been married 5 years. Together 11 years. I do not want kids for this very reason. Pull out game on point fellas.

As someone who went through this insanely sexist and insane process years ago....damn, reading the comments makes me feel physical pain. Are there advocacy groups for this kind of problem?

Dude, you have no idea how close to true this is. Literally waited for my turn before a judge. Listened while a guy was trying to get custody of his kid from the mom, not present in court, who has a warrant out because she tried to run the dad over with her car. My man was in a cast in court. The judge granted an extension to give the mom time to appear. Seriously, they hate fathers in family court. I see this same judge in September. She definitely hates men.

Wife: i want him to suffer. Judge: you're strong and independent.

Lesson I'm talking from this. Never get married, never have s3x.

Yeah, the child support system is based on the idea that women are always victims and men are always the aggressors. As long as this belief remains rooted in society, the courts will act like this. My mom and grandma were excessively vindictive about minor things during the divorce. Although I am glad that the divorce did happen, and that I wouldn't be seeing Dad for as long as he remained the way he was, it did hurt my Dad significantly - he's still successful and found a new hobby, but he tells me he was in a pretty awful state due to it for about two years. Me and Dad are making up now after seven years, since I was waiting for him to change from someone who pushes their beliefs endlessly into someone who advises but doesn't shove crap down your throat. My Dad was barely physically abusive - the abuse was emotional, and when compared to the stuff my mom's stepdad did to her, my dad's stuff seems quite minor. The Child Support system needs some reforms to deal with their whole sexism shtick, even if I ended up benefitting from it. This is one of the few things that distance me and my Mom as well as my Grandma. I have a neutral relationship with my Grandma (it feels like walking on ice sometimes, she is quite sensitive) and my mom is my best friend (but this is one of the topics that lessen my opinion of her). I have a cold, but warming up relationship with my Dad (he was very, very preachy and emotionally distant, though I feel bad for him because his parents spoiled the crap out of him; nowadays he's warming up, though it could be his midlife crisis)

My heart goes to all the Fathers that got played by the system It needs to change

I went through this and paid tens of thousands only for the mother to ultimately endanger my son and was a raging drug addict and was arrested with meth pills and pot with my son crying in the back seat. I won custody and she was issued to pay child support. That was years ago. I haven’t received one red cent

Woman: "I steal every once in a while and I also set up men." Judge: 🥰

I feel terrible for all the great dads who go above and beyond for their kids yet get sh** on by the court system and bitter bit**es. I went to mediation with my ex and used her own greed against her. I had to give up my house, car, taxes, etc.. but in the end I have 50/50 custody and don’t pay child support. She’s still pissed I’ve moved and am happy. In the End I got what I always wanted to see my kids as much as possible. I struggle but do my best for my kids. To all the dope a** dads out their working your butt off for your kids. Trust me they notice it in the end you’re the winner. Don’t let anyone tell you any different

“I want him to suffer” “you’re so brave🥺”💀

U live in a society where. If a man fails to pay alimony or child support, he is put behind bars. If a woman commits paternity fraud , she is free to go without facing any consequences.

This really hurts because I was raised by my father and this happened to him.

I haven’t laughed this hard since a toddler, you don’t know how much I appreciate you

Bro my mom was so vindictive against my dad she made him pay for like 10 years. At first I was a teen, sure, but by the end I was a grown ass nigga, living on my own for years, i had graduated from university, and had a steady career job. It made no goddamn sense. She actually subpoena me to show up in court once, just so it could play in her favor. She tried to convince me my dad had gay affairs (he hadn't). Oh and even though I was splitting my uni classes costs with dad, she stole the deductions related to those fees for her own personal income tax reports. What a nightmare of an era... and what kind of backward justice system gave her so much money even though I wasn't even around anymore...

Even though people say times have changed, this video is far more of an accurate assessment of how it really goes. My daughter's mother didn't show up to a hearing, got caught in a lie, and the judge still blamed me for her shortcomings in life. It was almost like she (the judge) knew my baby mama

your acting is just on pointt

Had to comment twice. It’s not even fucking funny how accurate this is

That “judge” brought out a primal anger in me.

My brother got screwed over in the system. He tried to get full custody and to get rid of support payments. The mother had DV and child abuse charges against her. The judge blamed my brother because he did not stop her from committing those acts. The judge also raised his child support. When my brother told them he could not afford the rate, the judge told him to live in his car. The system is corrupt. She also had a high-priced lawyer that was friends with the judge.

as a woman myself, it's gut wrenching seeing these comments and their personal stories similar to this skit, the judicial system is very corrupt and i only hope and wish that there will be change to it, god bless those who are going through a tough time similar to this.

People need to keep bringing this issue to attention. Child support is a cruel and unfair system that needs to be changed. Some people have to pay up to 60% of their income. Ridiculous.

Wife : “openly admits to committing multiple crimes” Judge : “I’m so proud of you girl!”

Smh I don’t see one woman in this thread acknowledging this as an issue. Sad…I’m sorry to all the men who have had to endure this. I don’t ever plan to contractually tie myself to anyone but I feel your pain.

I’m sorry to all men that have to go through stuff like this.

It's really sad how true this is. Corrupt and biased judges, forcing men to pay child support when they shouldn't have to. System is all fucked.

Griffy’s vocal chords when he’s covering a politically hot topic: “ah shit here we go again.”

I'm best to have a woman that believes in family, my college buddy is not so lucky. Wife began cheating on him while he was on the border with the National Guard. Said he wasn't paying enough attention to her even though he in the middle of nowhere Texas burning up. He comes home and tries to work it out. She continues cheating with woman and men. He, in a desperation to keep his family together, allowed her to bring her girlfriend in and live with them. After 6 months of that, he decided that this wasn't working and that their marriage was over, he found someone at work and began texting with her. Wife found out and claimed he was cheating and divorced him and put him on child support. She calls my wife up and brags that he is paying $1700 for two dang kids. It hurts me the way he was treated by the system. Also, it what world does it take $1700 to raise two kids in Alabama? Hell I wish I got that type of raise at work when we had our first two.

It's not just the court system that treats men like crap. It's also the entire family and friend base of the woman who has the child. Plus the people in courthouse like security that know you are involved in a child support case. I had this one woman who swore I was the father of her child and that she wasn't only with me. Named the little guy after me and all. Her family treated me bad because I wanted to be sure first. That was the worst time of my life how they treated me and all the names they called me. I even almost lost my life in that timeframe. The people in the courthouse made fun of me when they understood i was there for a DNA test. Told me don't forget to pay your child support. Turned out the kid wasn't mine. Until this day her being the woman she was, I doubt she ever told her son I wasn't his father. She probably kept that lie up considering they put my name on his birth certificate without my permission.

This is why I love the fact that "Liar Liar" included the scene where it shows the father should have full custody of the children, and Jim Carrey's character has an epiphany when the mother refuses to agree to joint custody of how evil she is, and how evil he was for helping people like her.

My mother was one of those “parents” that sold crack out of the house we lived in. My father fought hard every day to see my sister and I and only after 10 years of fighting in court did he finally get custody of us

Had to come back to this pure gold classic. Made me cry a little 😢

THIS WAS LIT! THANK YOU

Truth. My best bud had to prove his child was exposed to methamphetamine in order to get sole custody. The ex also showed up to court drunk -- twice. This process took two years.

i know this is a skit but this is so true im glad griffy has the platform to educate people on real problems but this was so funny 😂😂

Why don’t feminists jump on this issue and decry the apparent “inequality” that men suffer, if indeed gender equality is their advocacy?

My sister got pregnant out of wedlock while I was going to college. Came back home and she was back living with my folks. My nephews father fell behind on child support, which my sister clearly didn't need since she was living rent free with my parents, an she and my entire family was trying to deny the father visitation because he fell behind on child support. It was one of the many things that caused me to have a fall out with my family and I have a very difficult time looking them in the face.

I've seen this happen to a friend of mine. The woman was actively dealing drugs and not feeding her child, but the system still fought tooth and nail against the father's interest.

I literally came home yesterday from a long days work, to a letter from child support threatening to send a letter to the credit unions saying how I’m late in payments, though I’m not. I pay and still can’t see him. Situation breaks me down regularly.

My best friend/roommate is going through a custody suit AND frivolous lawsuit by his unstable malevolent ex-wife. It’s a tough thing to watch this guys soul drain away a little bit each week

Going through the comments section almost made me tear up. Sorry to all of you who went through this.

When I literally had my ex allow me to be primary because she was partying and abandoning her kids like how she’s portrayed here once every 4 months . The judge STILL asked “ why would the mother allow you to have primary custody?” With a fierce attitude , my ex wife didn’t even show up or pay for the divorce. Her own attorney dropped her. I find it absolutely ridiculous that all us guys are treated like dead beats and don’t care to hear anything we say. Women are just as bad if not WORSE now than men ever were.

you're so brave line had me in stitches

you are actually a good actor... you do all the characters like their own person

You know what would go a long way to fixing child custody courts? If the court required the parent receiving money to prove that the money is being spent on the child every month. Literally had to present a budget and receipts.

Thank you Griffy for bringing men’s issues to the spotlight with your platform. Many men talk about these things but aren’t taken seriously or they get canceled. Hopefully people will stop gaslighting and shaming men for speaking up about our blatantly sexist justice system.

This was funny as heck...on repeat! 💕

One of The Best Griffy Videos To Date 😅😂🤣

Oh boy jokes aside this is accurate, being a victim of this for my kids is ridiculous. I had proof of why I was the better parent and more self sufficient and mentally stable but she is a woman so she needs all that money I work my ass off for and I barely get my kids because I have male privilege!

Dude. This shit is scary real. Went through this last year and the judge gave her everything she wanted because, and I quote, "I just don't see a reason to not give her what she wants," even though she lied through the whole thing. Called our child disabled to get sympathy from the judge ...our child is not disabled. She is completely healthy, smart and beautiful. I now see her 6 days a month. I have a clean record, served in the air force, have a bachelor's degree and was finishing said degree at the time with my GI bill. The judge said I should only get 23% because I was in school and needed to focus. I'm just glad that a fat feminist commissioner is allowed to decide what is best for me and my child. I also pay maximum child support and she got all my shit. Hardest year of my life

Bro this hits too close to home, I’m watching my stepdad go thru this right now with his ex

Been through this my self and this is 10000% correct. Especially in Jamaica

My dad had to go through the same thing when my mom cheated on my dad while he was deployed and tried to murder us all when he found out after getting home. He had gotten custody of all of his kids and still had to pay 1600 a month in child support. To a woman with no kids in her custody. And he had to attend parental classes and anger management classes for absolutely no reason. My dad had no house and was borrowing another soldier's car so at least he couldn't lose those lol. Child services asked us what we thought of our parents and accused our dad of abusing us because we said we didn't see him often because he was in Iraq or Afghanistan where he got a purple heart. We told the workers all the things our mother had done to us and they said that it was our fault and that rules were in place for a reason and not to act up.

There was someone I knew of, but he was my friend's friend we'll call him David for now and he ended up taking his own life back in 2019. It was a high school pregnancy (of course) but he didn't stray away from his child. After he and the mother of the child we'll call Karen for now finished high school after some time there were some bumps in the road, but her parents felt he was a deadbeat. What they didn't know was David was a natural in technology, he had a job on 23rd street for some tech business there and got paid well. What her parents did was set up an arranged marriage for her with some dude who was (at the time) most likely in his 30s and made sure that David did not know about any of it. Then the day came when he had to go to family court, Karen was there, her parents, and her newlywed husband. There were outbursts from David's side because Karen had obviously lied about what David does when he's around his child and how he'd "neglect" it. After 4 hours the court decided to give Karen custody of the child for the reason of...Financial stability because since they were not married and she is NOW, she, by default, was considered more financially stable than he was. This verdict destroyed David, he became the definition of "What changes a man". In March of 2019, horrible news was texted to me. David's child had died. To sum up the incident, Karen was at work, and the stepfather was home with the 3 kids (2 being his, 1 David's). David's child had crawled near the stepfather's phone charger in the other and electrocuted itself by chewing on the wire. The stepfather was sent to jail for child neglect for 10 years while she had to sit there and her husband goes to jail. 2 months passed and then I get a call from my friend and he tells me that David had committed suicide. I'm going to end it here, I know I typed more than I needed to, but when issues like this happen it's hard for me to not think about David's story. It's not a family court if it's meant to break families.

This was so excellently done. I have reason to believe that the love of my life is going through this with his ex, in fact I'm just about 100% positive he is dealing with this and all I can think to myself is how can I possibly alleviate him and make his situation better...this exact situation is probably the very reason I haven't heard from him in so long. It's very complicated cos it's literally a strange ass love triangle. All I CAN do right now is continue praying fervently for him and his little one...I'm just speaking as a gay man in love with a bi man who's probably, almost definitely dealing with this. I'm so sorry anyone has to go through this especially if they've made the effort to be a loving father. Idk, that's just my picture on it though.

Lucky, judge took it easy on him compared to other men I know 🤣

"Stop asking men why they didn't fight harder to see their kids, and start asking women why men have to fight at all." - Someone, somewhere

The system has always favored mothers over fathers. By default, the mother already wins. Btw great video! Edit: Some women can have a history against them whether that be drug abuse, violent crimes, or even openly admitting to being a terrible mother, etc…still gets custody over the kid(s) even if they’re negligent. And these same women typically ki11 their kid(s), never take care of them, or/and hardly ever care to be around them. Not all women can be mothers. I know someone that doesn’t care to be around her baby, pushes everything on the dad, and is never happy. Would you believe me if I said that this same woman wished to have a child, and when she got one the passion and love for it… disappeared. Boils down to having a dysfunctional family herself, self-esteem issues, perhaps even selfishness, and a need for attention, so she parades around like a mother. Sad to see it.

I'm not going to lie. My mom is a single mother and she tried with my sister's dad. I have to be honest she really did. It feels like the system for the most part treats the parent that's actually doing their best to take care of the kids and all like their requests and all don't matter while the parent that's scheming and doing nothing gets everything without even trying. I feel so sorry for the guys that actually try to be there for their kids but the kid(s)'s mother just makes it incredibly difficult and then paints them in this bad light like they were never there. You just never know how some people are going to act or respond in some situations but money really does bring out people's true nature and those that are already causing chaos and a ruckus just seem to get even worse...

This video is crazy. The mom taking care of the kid once every four months is unbelievable.

The woman always wins. I literally went to court a few years ago for a car accident. The judge asked my side of the story and I told exactly what happened. Then the judge asked her side of the story and she admitted it was raining and she drove into the back of my car because she couldn’t see in the rain and was texting the babysitter WITH THE CHILD IN THE CAR. judge ruled in her favor and she won $5K from my insurance company and they made me at fault for a accident I was rear ended and she admitted in court texting and driving with a child in the car and in the rain. Men are meant to fail against woman period 💯💯

Grew up with a horrible vindictive mother and my dad was fighting the courts, did not matter how many drugs she did, any abuse she committed, or just plain kidnapping at times, still lasted from around 7-13 years old Any dads out there just keep fighting, if you're in the right god will help you

This is so damn accurate it hurts.

3:10-3:20 How hard Griffy went into these words and the out of breath sound killed me and i saw god 😆😆

I remember working at a fast food place years ago and overhearing a coworker talking about how she will do everything she can to make sure that her ex-husband will never see her kids like she was gloating about it. I do not understand how people can be so selfish.

I've seen a lot of comments about custody horror stories here. I figured I'd liven up the comment section with a positive one. My step-dad and mom were going through a divorce, and of course my mom got (temporary) custody of their kids. I was in high school, and my little brothers were in elementary. During the time that my step-dad and mom were split, my mom decided to go out all night drinking, partying, and generally trying to recapture her youth, getting off her meds for her Bipolar disorder, as well as slowly getting back into hard-core drugs (of which I'm sure was Crack). My step-dad (my younger brothers' father) was finding and getting a job, getting into a decent relationship, and working on bettering himself. While my mom was partying and all in all not being a good mom, I had to take care of my brothers as well as focus on my school work (even leaving after-school programs to take of my brothers) I don't regret it as I do love my brothers very much. It eventually got too much and I spoke to my counselor about it, who then got Child Protective Services involved, and when they came to visit, my mom was too drunk to even meet them and so they waited for an hour for her to crawl out of bed and speak to them. A court case to determine custody was soon scheduled, to which my brothers' father showed up, and of course our mom did not. Luckily their dad won and since has gotten engaged to a wonderful woman, and both their dad and soon to be step mom love my younger brothers and care for them very much. One is in high school right now, and the other is just about to go into high school.