DEAR ABBY: My dad is a registered sex offender who has done time for his crimes against children. My mother has continued to have contact with him and has repeatedly chosen him over her own children. She doesn’t respect our wishes, and we believe she gives him information about our lives and our images.
With a child on the way, I cannot continue the same level of contact with her because of this. I’m not willing to have my child be at her home because she has Dad there often. I’m also unwilling to give her photographs of my child because I believe she would share them with Dad. I won’t leave her alone with my little one because I believe she’d immediately set up a get-together for my sex offender dad to have contact with my child.
How should I handle setting these boundaries? What do I do if other members of my family blame me for splitting up our family? — MAMA BEAR IN OHIO
DEAR MAMA BEAR: You are the mama (bear), and you get to set the rules when it comes to who has access to your child. Because you cannot trust your mother not to ignore the boundaries you are setting, you will have to restrict her access to her grandchild. If this…
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