Name changed for this one
Basically I have a 19-year-old half brother I'm worried about
I lived with him at my mother's address from the age of 12 -he was 2
He was severely neglected by my mother - he was fed a diet of chocolates
Was kept in a pushchair till age 6
Was very scruffy and unkempt
My mother was a drug addiction by and his father a violent alcoholic I helped in bringing him up and would shoplift food and read to him and take him to the park etc
Social services took him away from my mother at age 6 and he was put with a family member who he had never met in his life
I was homeless at 16 when he left and ended up moving away and my younger siblings who lived with my father who never wanted me growing up have had a lot to do with him
He was also abused physically and emotionally at his new home and was severely bullied at school
Now age 19 he is withdrawn
No. Communication skills
No motivation
No friends
And still living at an abusive home
I live over 100 Miles away from him and have my own children and a lot of problems myself
My two siblings have their own homes and are single people with no children but they have inherited my father's cold ways
They shout at him and put him down because he can't grow up and he's an adult now remember you're an adult is what they say -it's like they have forgotten what he's gone through - I have said recently that he can come and live with me but he's saying he doesn't want to -we haven't had a proper relationship for years
I'm not working but put money in his account occasionally
I want to help more it hurts to think of his life -19 years of misery and he is the kindest nicest person with full empathetic capacity