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This week's topic involves child custody.

This week's topic involves child custody.

This article was written by Liliana De Jesus.

Charlie Sheen and his ex-wives are taking the term modern family to a whole new level.   

With possible suspicions that Brooke Mueller is using drugs again, as reported on TMZ, her 4-year-old twin boys, Bob and Max, have been placed in the temporary custody of Denise Richards.   

Quoting TMZ sources, a New York Post report cites the kids were taken from the home because it has been deemed an “unsafe environment” by the LA County Department of Children and Family Services, which removed the kids from the home last Thursday.   

Mueller is an absentee parent, who has not actually lived in the home where the kids reside for weeks, according to TMZ sources.   

A source close to the family told E! News Mueller is not upset that her boys are with Richards, as Mueller trusts her.   

While it seems that Mueller, on probation from a December 2011 drug charge, is fine with the kids being in Richards’ custody, Mueller’s mother is upset about the arrangement.   

This, however, is not the first time Richards has stepped in and up to help care for the boys.   

Richards kept the boys when Mueller had her 19th stint in rehabin December of 2012.   

And what does Sheen have to say about his kids being moved back and forth between his ex-wives?    

A source admits Sheen “is completely supportive of [Richards having temporary custody] and wants what's best for the boys.”   

It is unfortunate these twin boys have had such fluctuating home lives, especially at an age where stability and routine is of pertinent value to their development.  

Richards, who has two daughters with Sheen, has proven to play a positive role in all of Sheens’ younger kids’ lives. One can only hope that Mueller and Sheen are able to make the best decisions in their own lives for the sake of Bob and Max.   

Luckily for the boys, Richards is around to be the model parent, while their biological parents continue to figure out how to best be parents to their kids.   

A court hearing is scheduled for next week to determine where the boys will be placed permanently.


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