Betrayal Of A Sister

but my friend went through this and those kids were starving and fuul of worms and they did nothing...all it did was caused a family fued..

I worded my post in such a way that you could not tell that this was something that I had already done. Call me a coward, but not when it comes to my nieces and nephews. I was living with them at the time and going to therapy and I would talk about the things that were going on and eventually things got so bad that my therapist asked for permission to call social services and I said yes. The situation was such that the children were eating out of the same bowls that they used to feed the dogs. The food would be left out on the table and we would find the cat on the table helping himself. Their parents would go to work and leave no money or food in the house and I would have to find a way to feed six kids. They slept on bare urine saturated mattresses with little to no covers. They would beg for food until they fell asleep. Even when there was food in the house, my sister would go out to eat before coming home and then not cook for the kids. My sister had told me that sometimes the house looked so bad that she did not want to come home. The house is in a very nice neighborhood, but their property made everyone elses look bad, so we never went to the neighborhood meeting. When the Social worker came, he gave them a week to get the house together. We cleaned and scrub, they went out and bought beds and dressers for the children and did what they could. When he came back the following week, he asked me secretly how things were going and I said they are doing the best thing they can. And he closed the case and left. A few months after I moved out, I e-mailed my sister and told her what I had done. We argued it out on the computer and after that I did not call her for about a month. She have since reconciled and her husband has done his best to curve his temper. The last time I was there the house was so beatiful it looked like Ty Pennington had been there and the kids were cleaning up, unlike before. I was sooooooo happy for them.

It sounds like your therapist's calling social services gave your sister and her husband the reality check they needed. I am so happy to hear that things are better! Too often neglected children continue to be neglected and that's definitely not right. Children don't deserve that. I believe whole-heartedly that you did the right thing in this situation.