I want to inquire with CPS about a situation with my nephew (my nieces son) who has been staying with my mother and I for about a year now. The baby’s mom is now 19 and she has been using drugs for the majority of her teen years. She is very emotionally unstable to say the least and I worry about her ability to have patience and care for a child. She rarely visits the child and on a handful of occasions she has taken him for the night. When she brings him back he is very hungry and seems fuzzy or slow. During this year or so she has been in jail and I have been recording her reckless driving and illegal behavior on Instagram where she is very active.

I have lost hope that she can actually care for the baby because she is very emotionally immature to the point where I do not think she understands that he is only a baby and that he has needs that she herself is not disciplined enough to do for her own self. I.e eating, bathing, sleeping , emotional and physical well-being etc. For example, the last time she came to pick him up for a night she started hysterically crying because the baby did not want to go with her and she was screaming “why doesn’t he love me” and scaring the baby to the point where he began to cry as she drove away with him, mad at me because I could console him and she could not. She does not care to make sure his car seat is properly fastened or anything. It’s very difficult to watch and leaves me worried to death.

After a few of these horrible trips where she takes him and brings him back in a visibly negative state I feel like I need to do something or tell someone because I don’t believe that the situation is going to get any better and when she does choose to pick him up permanently ( as far as I know right now she doesn’t /hasn’t had a job and stays with a friend) we will be left unable to do anything for his wellbeing.

I don’t even know where to start or how to explain this to CPS. I am worried that they will not understand just how dangerous it is for the child to be under her care. Do you guys have any suggestions on where to begin? Or what could happen?