Was there abuse in his background, neglect, a drug-addicted parent?

They offer a sweeping range of family problems, from out-of-control teenagers to drug-addicted parents.

Some have moved away from drug-addicted parents to live with grandparents or other relatives.

Why not something similar for formerly drug-addicted parents?

They find ways to cope, set goals and achieve them despite myriad obstacles like drug-addicted parents, dire poverty or physical disabilities thrown in their path.

Grandmothers offer to take in grandchildren abandoned by drug-addicted parents.

She was put in her grandmother's care by city child-welfare workers when she was 3 to escape the abuse of two drug-addicted parents.

"In the middle class, when there are alcoholic or drug-addicted parents, we don't remove children."

But drug-addicted parents do not tend to make requests of the courts, out of fear of legal problems for themselves, officials said.

Rose, 10, and her brother, Phil, 8, were physically and sexually abused by drug-addicted parents.