A pat answer to every situation, is no answer at all.
And something tells me your daughter never dated a man who had a restraining order against having any contact with her children or anybody else’s children. Or who had a mile-long rap sheet, as I’m sure this sub-human baby-shooter already had. The really obvious stuff makes a big difference in the statistics.
It seems that your daughter was doing it for the right reasons. She wanted a strong man in her children’s lives.
I’m willing to bet she didn’t meet your current son-in-law at a bar or nightclub, and her “dating” was probably not the self-indulgent type of dating that leads moms to make bad decisions.
The fortunate outcome is probably not the result of your daughter’s “dating”, but rather he determination to secure what is best for her children.
I’m very happy it worked out, but I will stand by my original comment, which is that moms probably shouldn’t “date”.