A father came to my daycare to pick up his children, and he was drunk...?

My state law says that I have to release the children to their parents no matter what. I can call the police, but I cannot keep the kids away from him or from getting in the car with him. His wife was with him the day he came drunk, and she was driving. I walked the kids out to the car so I could get a good look at her, and she didnt seem to be intoxicated at all. what if he comes back like this? how can I approach this in the right way. I dont care much about offending him, I care much more about the kids safety...

How would you go about handling this?

I would just ask him if you could talk to him for a few minutes and tell him that your just concerned about his children, and want them to be safe.
Hope i helped and God Bless!

As a daycare provider, dont you have the same obligation as a teacher to report instances like these to the Department of Social Services? I know that teachers and nurses are "obligated" to do so, but I would think that day care providers are similar to teachers. Maybe you could talk to the child and the mother, and let her know that you do not think that is is appropriate or safe for the father to come drunk to the facility. But if you call social services, you will remain annonymous and the DSS worker will stop in for a suprise visit to the house to make sure that all is well there.

I would probably have contacted the police with the license plate of the car and their address to simply check that everything was ok. If she wasn't drinking and she was sober then other than the poor choice of having him come in and pick up the child then there would be no big deal, but if she were drinking too and just wasn't visibly intoxicated then she could be putting the children in danger.
Or at the very least i would have walked them out and asked her if everything was ok to survey the situation myself.

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