Emotions Can Lead To Drug Use
Drug Use Could Be Fatal to Outcome
There Could Be Supervision
In many instances, a parent’s visitation might end up being supervised for a time until several clean drug tests are present. In some cases, where a parent continually fails drug tests, that parent could ultimately end up with only supervised visitation for the long-term. Importantly, that parent can also end up not being an equal decision maker in the lives of their children in terms of legal custody. In some cases where the drug use is extreme, parents can even have their parental rights terminated – and the children can end up in the custody of the state.
For all these reasons, parents must think long and hard before they even engage in casual drug use as a parent. At the end of the day, the interests of the children have to come first. While in the middle of a custody case and/or court proceedings, the drug use simply has to stop.