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How to decide when a recovering parent is ready for custody

My daughter has been clean for eight months and wants her son back but I have watched her relapse four times and I do not trust her with his safety.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love for both adult child and grandchild creates an agonizing conflict between hope for recovery and protection of the vulnerable.

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