DEAR DEIDRE: My family is obsessed with meeting my baby son but I don’t want them anywhere near him.
He’s two weeks old and I want to protect him from the evil family that I grew up with.
I’m a woman of 25. I’m Indian and I married another Indian guy who is from a lovely family.
My father was abusive towards us kids and my mother when we were young. My brother became violent towards me and my sisters, wanting us to stick to their strict culture.
At 18, he threw me out of the house when he caught me sitting in a boy’s car. I was homeless for six months and then I met my husband.
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My mother traced me a year ago. I have kept in touch with her. But now that I've had a baby, my brother and father keep demanding to see him.
I don’t want them near him. I love my mother. She has done nothing wrong but I hate the others.
DEIDRE SAYS: It is your right as a mother to say who you want to have near your child.
To make you homeless at 18 was a terrible way to treat a sibling and a child.
You have started your own family now and it’s important you feel confident enough to bring up your child as you feel is right.
You can find support through Stand Alone (www.standalone.org.uk), which helps people of all ages who become estranged or disowned from their family or key family members.