text: would you rat on a child beating pot addicted mother? i know a mother of 2 who has a pot problem, she uses her money to buy pot and treats 1 of the kids like supreme crap with emotion and physical abuse.  would you rat her out to the authorities knowing full well if you did the child would be put into foster care since no one else in the family would take her in?  also this person has a weed op in their basement. being a child of the state isn't fun... you may cause them to be worse off sending them to the state... maybe you should ask the child if they would like to be with their mother and find out if they are happy in their situation.. sometimes it's not as bad as it seems!