I am the stepmother of a 5,7 yr old. is there testing that can be done to see if their biological mother was doing drugs or drinking while they were in womb? and if so, is their any legal action that can be taken if it is proven that she was?
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If the doctor and nurses suspected drug use, they would have ordered the babies blood to be tested. A positive result would have almost certainly sent the baby directly to foster care. If that didn't happen, it is highly unlikely you would ever get anywhere pursuing this.
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It sounds to me like you just want an excuse to sue someone and make a few bucks. No, and technically yes but you'd likely lose.
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I'm not sure about the testing, there may be certain distinctive birth defects that are rarely caused by anything but drug and/or alcohol use during pregnancy, but that long after birth it's almost impossible to tell what, if anything, the child's mother may have been on while carrying them. As for legal action, I'm no legal expert, but I'm relatively certain that, even though it's not really the right thing to do, doing drugs and drinking during pregnancy isn't isn't a crime punishable by anything beyond the *Possible* placement of the children in foster care. So in all likelihood, even if you could prove that their mother was heavily abusing drugs and alchohol during both of her pregnancies, there wouldn't be much you could do with the evidence in a court of law.
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