God I hope I dont live to regret this.
My almost 13 yr old DD1 has a male 15 yr old "friend" (another story that I have posted about before).
His mother kept kicking him out. Social services were involved and all seemed to settle.
Half an hour ago, I discovered that he has been kicked out again tonight and is currently wandering the streets in a less salubrious part of our city.
I spoke to him and he is tearful and shaky and kept apologising for being a pain. He says he has been locked out and cant go home. He has tried a few friends houses but they are either asleep or not answering. He wont go to the police.
I currently have my DD1 and her best friend sleeping here, and my 6yr old DD2.
I cannot allow this child to remain on the streets, I just cannot. And how his mother can sleep knowing he is out wandering around I just cannot grasp at all (no matter what he has done). So I have said he can come and sleep here tonight.
This makes me uncomfortable for a number of reasons, but I just cannot ignore this situation. We have a spare room but it is upstairs next door to mine and DD2's room and would prefer he wasn't up here. So I have said he can sleep on the sofa downstairs, which is next door to DD1's room.
To complicate matters, a friend of DD2 is being dropped off at 9 and my ex coming to collect the little ones to take to a party. So he must be gone by then.
He is about half an hours walk away so I have come to bed but my door is open so I can listen out.I have warned my daughter that this is a huge amount of trust on my part, and if they break it,there will be serious consequences.
I dont think I had a choice tonight.