[Chicken8182]

Hello my husband and I began fostering my niece when she was about a yr and a half old, we have since adopted her. In the beginning because of her age we kept it as an aunt and uncle basis and bc we werent sure of how long she would be with us,eventually after a couple months on her own she began calling us mom and dad. A little back story my sis in law is a drug addict and an alcoholic at age 22 this was not the first cps placement and currently she is in jail. Just like your sister? my sis in law didn't comply with visitations and parenting and drug alcohol programs so it went to tpr. once the tpr is in effect the bio parent has no say in how you raise the child. They way my husband and I approach it is my daughter calls us mom and dad, she doesn't have any contact w/ my sister in law because of her behavior and the fact that my daughter is deathly afraid of her( sup.visit gone wrong), and at no time no matter what she does will we ever give her up. If you have to get a no contact order/restraining order we have one. I can't say that not having my sis in law in our lives is badly affecting any of us, my daughter doesn't even remember her hardly. All I can do is be open and honest when the time is right. Any contact with my sis in law will have to be up to my daughter as she grows, bc honestly I don't see my sis in law getting clean anytime soon. I wish you lots of luck and prayers