Brother calls CPS on his sister solely because she isn't sober like him, demands that she forgive him without apologizing: 'I told him I never wanted to see his face again'

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Oct 11, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

No parent is perfect. There is no parenting SAT you can get a perfect score on, and there is seldom a kid who will grow up and say that their mom and dad did everything right. Every parent has their own idea of what the best practice is for raising a kid, and while those ideas differ from family to family, we've largely accepted some acts that will warrant a call to Child Protective Services. A mom who drinks and smokes all the time might spur a call, but what about one that isn't totally straight-edge? Obviously, if every parent who drank and smoked got their kids taken away, nearly every home in America would be broken up. But that logic didn't stop one sober brother from tattletaleling on his sister to CPS for bogus reasons. 

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    AITAH for not wanting to accept my brother's apology after he lied to CPS.
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    I have no idea what to do right now, I am so angry with my brother that I now keep my front door locked 24/7 so him and his wife don't just walk in. So lets start with the fact that my brother is clean and sober and has been for a few years, married with two boys (cause also relevant). I on the other hand smoke the green cause it is legal where I live, he has also had an increasing issue with this fact believing the only way to properly live is to be sober and even the smallest idea of using dru
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    trying to find my house so he could come and see if my kids were doing okay. The call came with a laundry list of complaints which where as the case worker noted completely unfounded and this whole thing was a waist of time. The caseworker asked my eldest questions to see if anything was true and he could see in her face that she was confused on why he would ask such weird things. Well in my confusion I called my mother and sister to tell them what had just happened, I was in the process of expl
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    | his shoulders and said yes i did why... I immediately lost my told him to get out of my house and that I never wanted to see his face again he and his wife quickly shuffled out of the house while I went to go cry in a room away from the kids. Four days later and the case is being closed, CPS had said there was nothing in our homes or about us that would or should cause them to be involved. Now my brother and his wife are trying to message me and guilt me into forgiving him but there isn't a fi
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    UPDATE: I just want to thank you for all this reassurance that cutting him off is the best choice, this has helped strengthen my resolve moving forward. The thing that stings the most from this is we went through the system at very young ages and then being adopted by a monster of a man, but I will do right and plan to never speak with him again
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    Proper-Foundation668 NTA, cut off your brother and do not accept any apology. This is a hill worth dying on imo. He crossed a line that he cannot come back from.
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    Top-Spite-1288 OP did not even mention an apology, just brother and SIL trying to guilt trip her into forgiving them. That's no apology.
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    sugieslatt Completely agree. Messing with CPS isn't something you just brush off. It's a massive breach of trust, and OP is right to protect themselves and their family. Some things just can't be undone.
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    Calm_Investment There is nobody so pure as a reformed (hoor). I think your brother just embodied this sentiment. Yeah, stay away from him until he learns some humility and the ability to remove his head from his upper intestines.
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    Fuzzy Laugh_1117 Right? And OP needs to change her locks and/or keep her door locked against lowlife riff raff like her ex bro & sil. 100% no coming back from that. OP is NTA and bro is, and will always be, a big one. Write him TF off.
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    Sorry-Analysis8628 That. If my brother did that to me, he would be dead to me. God forbid the CPS visit had gone sideways for some reason. You could have had your kids taken away from you. Even for a day or two that can be extremely traumatic for children. And this is to say nothing of the horrific that can happen in group facilities or under the "care" of foster parents. He put your children at risk. I don't think I could ever forgive something like that.
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    DecadentLife My sister threatened my kid at 6 yrs old, to try to get something she wanted. I refuse to have anything to do with her. My parents have tried to force it, but I will not open that relationship again. Sometimes it just goes too far, this is especially true when it's about children. I have zero regrets about my choices.
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    No-Instance2381 File a complaint against him with the police for falsely reporting you, he and his partner won't stop
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    yankeecandle1 This. My mother continued to call the CPS on me, complaints unfounded, until I cut her off and got an attorney.
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    JoffreeBaratheon NTA. Cut them off permanently.
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