It’s true what they say: being a parent is a lifelong commitment. Even when your kids are long past the age where you’re helping them tie their shoelaces and blow their noses, they will still need you in other ways. Some may even argue that parenting can get harder as children enter adulthood because it becomes more difficult to understand where you should draw the line. There’s a difference between being supportive and being a human doormat.

This is something that one mom has recently come under scrutiny for after her teenage daughter fell pregnant. When she didn’t allow the father to move in with them, her child insisted she needed to ‘step up’ and help with the baby. Her response was to tell her to move out instead, a decision that caused controversy when shared with the internet. While some people were firmly on the side of the mom, others felt like she was having an extreme reaction. I guess we all have to learn these life lessons somehow.