I agree with what you say, but we live in Texas and as bad as W’s behavior may be, there is just not enough hard evidence against her to go in my favor. It will be my word against hers and the end result will be that we divorce, she gets custody of the kids and I pay her child support. Now what is fair about that? I know full well that going through with a protective order and filing for D at this point will just be stabbing myself in the back. I filed for D once. Paternal custody of the kids in Texas requires a lot more abuse than what is going on here. Texas courts just will not take kids away from mothers unless they absolutely have to.
Lil,
D13 does get up on her own, and is usually VERY responsible (much more so than D15). This morning W woke her up about an hour early to do her math.
