But at least this woman was canoodling with someone old enough to know better. Though I noticed that she did the usual custody accusations against her ex…”he does drugs” and “inappropriate relationship with child”. I hope, for the sake of the kid, that there’s a decent judge involved in deciding who gets custody. Mom sounds ready to pull every trick in the book.

One of the parts of my job that I hate is deciding who gets named “representative payee” for children’s Social Security checks when there’s some family squabble involved. And quite often, the parent or relative who is the most questionable in re having the child’s interests at heart, is the first one to say “well, drugs are involved”, apparently in the belief that the red-flag accusation alone will be enough to get themselves named payee. Parents fight dirty when kids are involved and even dirtier if there’s money to be had. You have to check it all out, of course, but usually it’s just bull from somebody with nothing else to offer to support their claim. I bet there’s the same sort of thing at work in this case.