The little 7 year old boy looked up at me with tears in his big brown eyes and asked, “Why doesn’t anyone want us?” He and his little brother and sister are the children of meth addicts. The mother left each of them in the hospital when they were born. She couldn’t wait to get back to getting high. The father tried to take care of them but eventually took them to their grandmother to raise.

Being a meth addict is a 24 hr a day obsession, there is no room in your life for anything else. How do you explain drug addiction to a 7 year old who’s parents have abandoned him? I don’t have the answers to give this precious little child who is so afraid because his grandma is sick and there is no one else to take care of them. These kids will be separated from each other and placed in a broken foster care system if grandma doesn’t get well soon. They have good reason to be afraid.

Methamphetamine addiction is a epidemic in our nation. there are more and more children being tossed aside by addicted parents. The foster care system is broken and can’t handle the influx. Grandparents are raising these kids and having to fight with a system that tries to make it as hard as possible for them. They usually have to fight the state in court to gain custody of their own grand children. The whole process is insane. We have a generation of kids that have no security because of their addicted parents and a ridiculous system that does not work in the best interest of the children. With government trying to take over more and more of our lives this can only get worse.

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I just want to salute those grandmas and grandpas that have stepped up to the plate for these kids and have fought the system to be able to provide safe loving homes for their grandchildren.

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I don’t have the answers to the drug problem in this country but I can and I do pray for these children who are the innocent victims of this travesty.