I'm interested to hear whether anyone has parents or in-laws who don't let either their children or grandchildren visit the house? If so, are there any particular reasons/causes for this? My in-laws are like this and I'm wondering whether it is at all common or what the likely causes might be. We did visit >10 years ago when our kids were v small. Nowadays we are explicitly not welcome. It's not personal to us - their other children and grandchildren are also not welcome (they are still small kids, so it's not about the age/size of the kids). If we meet up it has to be somewhere like a pub/cafe. Is this a 'thing' which creeps up on some people?