Bringing outside kids into a marriage

[Anonymous]

I'm PP. My boyfriend wasn't home when his daughter and I left to make a quick trip to the store, so I couldn't ask him to have her wear something different. And I didn't feel it was my place to tell her what to wear. I'm pretty sure she knew that he wouldn't have approved but she did it anyway to push the envelope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"The circumstances matter. I'd wait longer if I were a woman dating a man, especially if my child was a girl.


What if the man you were dating were also the father of a girl?"

A mom needs to exercise great caution with her children. She shouldn't expose them to men who could sexually abuse the children. The odds of a woman abusing her boyfriend's children are near zero, so it doesn't work both ways. And the fact that a man has a daughter shouldn't give him a free pass for access to a woman's daughter.

I know a couple of female friends who experienced abuse by the step-dad/boyfriend. What are the statistics on this? And, I assume it is under-reported.

Same. I would not invite a date to my house until my daughter is completely out of the house. I would not remarry. I don't need a live-in partner more than I need to protect my daughter.