Mom Backed for Trying To Ban Daughter’s Boyfriend From Her House

The internet has backed a mom who shared her frustration after her teen daughter’s new boyfriend left his child at her home.

In a post on the popular discussion site Mumsnet that has received over 700 replies, user crostina1 asked if it was unreasonable not to want her daughter’s boyfriend’s child in the house.

The Mumsnet user explained: “My 17-year-old DD has a new boyfriend of 22 (will call him J) who she met at work. They got together two months ago, and it has moved very fast. He has a 3-year-old son with an ex who he sees once every few months. He lives in his friend’s family’s spare room but is outstaying his welcome and needs to be out by Christmas.”

Explaining that J only works part-time hours, the mom said that he had been staying at their house more and more, staying for five days recently.

“I tried to ban him from the house at first but then they’d disappear for the night. I put my foot down and said he can only stay one night at a time, and no more than one night a week as this is our family home and we have my daughter’s autistic brother to think about, who is unsettled having a stranger in the home,” explained the poster. “J makes no effort with us at all. I haven’t ever actually had a conversation with J, he acknowledges me with a nod when he sees me in the house and that’s it.”

Just days earlier, the 17-year-old daughter had been to meet J’s child. “I didn’t agree with it, but saying anything would have been futile,” said the poster. “I was told they were getting the train to pick him up, going for lunch and to the park and then taking him back to his mom. I finished work early and came home at 3 and opened the door to find the child playing in my hallway.”

The Mumsnet user explained that she was furious and felt it was completely inappropriate for the child to be at her home. J had left to go to the shop and the Mumsnet user demanded that her daughter take the child to him to go home.

“My daughter and J don’t get what the problem is,” she wrote. “I barely know J. What if something had happened to the child in my house under my daughter’s care?”

Online, other Mumsnet users were quick to share their reactions, overwhelmingly siding with the mom. “It is refreshing…