My daughters mother doesn't have an issue with high schoolers dating older men, but "within reason" though she won't explain what that means. Her take is if our 16 year old daughter wanted to date a 26 year old man, we could lose her if we forbid it, like how those R Kelly chicks stopped communicating with their families for years...
So she says we should find productive ways to allow that kind of relationship...
For the record I think this is the same with women, works if the shoe is reversed to me...
your baby mama is dumb, no offense. you should get custody. a parent should guide their kid in the right direction, not enable their poor choices.
there is no productive way for a teenager to date a 26 year old man. i'm not even sure how a 26 year old would have access to your kid for a romantic relationship to even start. at 16, my friends were 15-17.
my only guess is that by 16 she was doing stuff like that, and she plans to pass along her poor decisions to your daughter.