"You absolutely do not. Not only because you don't get to make this decision unilaterally-as in, 'To hell with my wife, I'm siding with my daughter!'-because that's not the way marriage works, but also because I think you and Abigail are wrong. Telling everyone but her aunt that they are welcome to bring their children to her wedding is a lousy thing to do."
"I don't care that you-or anyone-considers Nick a 'holy terror.' I don't care that he played a prank at a cousin's wedding. The issue is not whether Nick deserves to be there, but whether it is fair to invite all the other children and exclude only him based on past behavior."
A father seeks permission to exclude his sister-in-law's misbehaving 8-year-old son from his daughter's June wedding. The daughter doesn't want the child present, and the father agrees, citing past incidents of disruptive behavior. However, the mother insists the boy attend to avoid family conflict, as they are funding the wedding. The advice columnist rejects the father's request, arguing that unilateral decisions undermine marriage and that selectively excluding one child while welcoming others is inappropriate. The columnist emphasizes that marital decisions require compromise and that the family must find a solution together rather than through parental decree.
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