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AIBU?

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Billy02 · 16/03/2019 10:14

really need some advice and have name changed for this.
Person A has 2 children and id pregnant with third, has a partner.
A has never had a steady life, must be carrying lots of baggage and i feel so sorry for them.

A lives in squalor so I'm told. The house stinks, there are cat faeces and stuff splashed up the walls, never been cleaned off.
No carpets on the floor etc , and in need of a whole deep clean, plus some.

Anyone who sees A just gossips behind her back, none of them tell her I suppose they don't want to upset her.
She doesn't neglect her kids, she worships them, and loves them so much.

I don't live close enough to just pop over for tea, I'm told I wouldn't want to drink out of the cups anyway.
Should I go over say my bit and offer to clean the whole house, I thought maybe do it with her and show her how to do it and a reasonable standard, I'm not perfect and have a mess sometimes, but never as bad as this sounds.
Even though we aren't close I love A and want to help her rather than judge her.
All suggestions welcome.

OP posts:
Oliversmumsarmy · 17/03/2019 10:26

hellenbackagen

Having had involvement with SS growing up and being in care I would take a messy and dirty house with a mother who adored me over a care home any day.

SS aren’t going to help the op or her children they will just breeze on and take the children which will not help anyone.

I have never known SS involvement without the threat or implied threat of removal of children.

Maybe others have been reported to SS and SS have turned up and given the patent real help without the implication that if the parents don’t get their act together they will take the children

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