You're right about that. Years ago we had an aborted adoption (very long, very upsetting story). The boy we were thinking of adopting had been abandoned by hs biomom when he was a year old. Her parental rights weren't severed until he was 7! She was an alcoholic and a druggie, and still her rights were more important than his.She would have to literally be doing some pretty bad things such as abuse, physical, mental, doing drugs, etc etc etc. While drinking is right up there on my list, it's not on everyone elses... It appears