My step childrens mom ( the kids are 15 and 8) is a deadbeat. She goes over a month constantly without seeing them. When they do go to her house she locks herself in her room with her new boyfriend and pays no attention to them. She bad mouths my husband constantly about being a bad parent ( which he isn't) and recently gave my stepson crap because she found out he sometimes calls me mom ( she left when he was 3.5, walked out on the entire family, I've been his "mom" since he was 5) do you think we can keep the kids from her? She has no money, lives with her dad, barely works and blows her government cheques on alcohol and "other" stuff lol