Hi all
My brother's daughter has left home after months of arguments.
This mostly surrounds her behaviour - she is hanging out with a bad crowd and frequently comes home intoxicated and at all hours.
He tells me she has been lying compulsively and her ex-boyfriend informed him that they had split up due to her promiscuity and cheating.
Following this, my brother and his daughter had a heated row two days ago and it emerged that she was bisexual and has been hanging out with an older woman ( a 29 YO single mother of 1) who she is reportedly staying with and having a casual relationship. There have been rumours that this woman, who has a 2 year old child, is a drug taker and has a habit of taking advantage of youngsters but there is no evidence other than what others have told us. It cannot be taken as fact on this basis though.
What can we do? Legally ? For the best?
She's somewhat out of control from what I can tell and my brother is now experiencing poor mental health for which he is seeing a specialist. We are technically half siblings and his mother recently died so he was already in counselling for bereavement. I'm worried this will tip him over the edge.
A little more background:
I didn't grow up knowing my brother well and it emerged later when we became close as adults that he always felt unwanted /out of place / or an inconvenience to my father's new family which was a painful truth to hear.
As history has a habit of doing, the relationship of my brother and his 16 YO daughter's mother didn't work out. He is with someone else now and has two additional kids. This had me wondering if the 16 YO also felt similar feelings of alienation / not belonging.
Can anyone advise on potential steps towards a solution before something catastrophic happens please?