Does spoiled food mean an old banana in the fridge
Does animal feces mean the cat box has a piece of dung outside
Does drug paraphernalia mean a bong on the coffee table..
Or is it much, much, worse, in which case, how could the kids be doing so well???
Yes. What kind of an addicted sleaze leaves a bong on the coffee table in front of his/her kids? If you think that is OK conduct, then you have a problem.
There was a case in rural Idaho a couple of years ago. Same charges except it was empty beer bottles. The father had died after a long illness. Also, the family was virtually penniless after a lumber business failure (spotted owl struck again!) and the father's ill health. Both parents were from nice families. The father was from a prominent east coast family.
The local authorities actually planned to arrest the mother at the funeral but held off a couple of days and tricked her to come out of the home with a promise of driving her to get help.
When their mother failed to return and the police showed up to take them away the children got their guns and held off for a few days. The children thought their mother had been killed and they were not going without a fight.
In the end and after a few days in the hospital for check ups the children were pronounced in very good health, bright, and otherwise normal.
There's more to the story but basically the authorities got the family's property, sold it to a developer, pocketed the huge difference between back property taxes and the sale price, let the mother out of jail until the trial, convicted her of reduced charges, and the authorities lived happily ever after. I still have most of the news articles, etc. about the case.