I want to get custody of my drug addict aunt's children but I don't want to hurt the children in the process, any advice?

A female age 30-35, anonymous writes:

Hey aunts and uncles I have been using this site for a while and always have great advice but I have a tough one here but I hope you can help. Long story short my aunts having another baby. She is a heroin addict and has two kids one is 6 and disabled and the other 8, she also has two grown up kids in their mid 20's who were taken away and put into care around 12 years ago. Both were sexually abused in care and are very messed up (drugs, self harm and multiple suicide attempts) she is now on methodone and her 2 youngest are still in her cae but I am pretty sure she has munchousens (sorry bout the spelling) syndrome. She makes out the youngest is much more disabled than she is and also makes up operations, comas and things that are lies. She also pretends she has cancer at least once a year. Anyway I am seriously considering going for custody of her kids. I am only 20 but I own my own home (upstair downstair and garden) and work full time. I in no way think this will be easy and know that I can cope ( I brought them up while she was in prison) I want to give them a better life a safe home and someone the can trust and rely on. The only thing stopping me is I don't want them to have mental health issues from being taken from their mum. I have been on a few forums and rarely see any success stories? Please any advice at all the last thing I want to do is hurt them more than help them? I know I could make them happy we won't have a lot of money but we will have enough to get by and as much love as they will ever need. Have any of you gone through anything similair? Thanks you for any help xx

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