Single Parents - who would you choose?

[Stockyman]

Tele-Cat, I think it would have been better to use a subject heading that would have got more attention, like 'Single mothers...........would you choose your current BF or your kids?"

I think it would have got a lot more responses.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by Tele-Cat

I've asked this question a bunch with no answers so I thought, at the suggestion of Stockyman, to make it a thread.

If you were involved with a childless/childfree person, and your kids didn't like the CF person who was your S/O, bf or whatever, would you side with your kids and dump the person even if the S/O or bf/gf was good to you and was not in any way hostile to your kids? Or would you take the side of your S/o bf/gf and tell the kids to get used to it, this is how it is and they can accept it or get lost?

Looking forward to your replies.

Edit: ADULT kids, not juveniles.

Adult kids as in living on their own in their own houses and all that?

I don't see why adult children should have all that much to say about who a parent dates --- same way parents wouldn't have all that much to say about who an adult child dates.

But if the children are still living in the parent's home, and the parent is bringing someone around that the kids don't like, it might be time for the kids to consider growing up and moving out.

Or --- another question. Who would want to date someone who has his or her adult children still living at home and dependent on the parent?