Originally Posted by
Ileana 
I will be the lone descent on calling CPS. Mom is already struggling with an AH, why make her have to panic about possibly losing her kids. You stepped in when they needed you and hopefully that will make mom think long and hard about getting them out of the situation permanently. Let's hope.
I would argue that the well-being of a child should be the most important priority for a parent. We're talking about the groundwork for the rest of that child's life. Emotional scars from childhood can devastate a person their entire life, and if things are getting to a point where a man's young children are calling a friend's parent to come get them because their own father is "going crazy", there is some dangerously serious scarring going on. Those children's interests aren't being looked out for.
What happens if something like
this thread happens to these children and it could've been avoided had CPS been called? How would that make you feel if you were the one who made that judgment call to not phone them?