Trigger warning: neglect and alcohol abuse.
Without going into much detail my mother has consistently had a problem with drink. Bindge drinking to the point of neglecting her children. There is a lot of other stuff. Putting children before men, drug abuse, narcissistic behaviour etc. I am a grown but my siblings are child-teen aged. I have been concerned for a while now since she got a new boyfriend and seems to be repeating patterns of behaviour from my childhood. I aimed to have my siblings live with me but this is not possible. School contacted social services, however, they have dismissed what my sibling has said. (She convinced us to lie to to SS on the grounds we would never see family again etc would be our fault if we said anything in the past so who knows if this happened again ). The ling and short of it is that she pickwd one of them up from school drunk, literally reeked of it drove off went to the pub and then bought more wine. I wish I had just phoned the police but didn't even think. Do I contact school and tell them the truth? Do I contact SS? Or both? It's Bindge drinking more days out of the week than not.