Former Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans says The Land has a new full-time resident!
In a “PSA Announcement” posted to Instagram Stories on Saturday, Jenelle dropped a bombshell about her oldest son, Jace, who has lived with Jenelle’s mom Barbara since his birth.
“I have custody of Jace. He lives with me now full-time,” she said. (You can watch the video below. Be aware, though, that it contains naughty words.)
Jenelle’s followers were understandably confused, as Barb has had legal custody of Jace since Jenelle signed over custody to her when Jace was just an infant. However, The Ashley can confirm that Jenelle is telling the truth…for the most part.
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The Ashley can exclusively reveal that Jenelle and Barbara have agreed to allow Jace to live with Jenelle and her husband, David Eason, on The Land full time.
While Jace has been living there for a bit now, the arrangement is not totally legal— yet.
“Jenelle and Barbara will sign off on it legally next week,” one of The Ashley’s sources tells her. “They aren’t going to court or anything, just signing papers so it’s legal and permanent that Jace lives with Jenelle now.”
In the past, Barbara had been against Jace living with Jenelle (due mostly to the chaos in Jenelle’s life over the years) and had refused to allow him back into Jenelle’s custody full-time.
“This decision has way more to do with Jace than Jenelle,” the source tells The Ashley. “Barbara can’t handle Jace anymore. They had been getting into really bad fights and Barbara is just done with it. That’s why she agreed to allow Jace to live with Jenelle. Things had gotten so bad between Barbara and Jace.”
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“One night a few weeks ago, Barb took Jace to Jenelle’s house and he’s been there ever since,” a second source said, adding that it was the night Jenelle posted a video to Instagram Stories that showed her making fun of the Joe Biden sticker on Barb’s car.
Both Jenelle and Jace were happy about Jace moving to The Land, and since Jace is currently doing online school due to COVID-19, the timing worked out well, the source said.
Before stating on Instagram today that Jace lives with her, Jenelle had kept surprisingly quiet about getting Jace back, due to the circumstances that caused him to move in with her finally.
“It took Jenelle 11 ½ years to finally get her son back, and she’s not proud of that,” the first source said. “And she’s disappointed that the reason that he finally came back is because Barbara couldn’t handle him anymore, and not because Barb felt Jenelle had grown enough to get him back.”
UPDATE! Jenelle’s mom Barbara was not happy that Jenelle was bragging on Instagram about having custody of Jace. She (with the help of Jenelle’s former manager) went to TMZ on Sunday to inform them that she will retain custody of Jace and that Jenelle “misspoke” when she was bragging about having custody.
However, The Ashley stands by her story that Barb and Jenelle are signing papers to allow Jace to live on The Land full-time (regardless if Barb told TMZ it’s only a few days a week to give him a “change of scenery” while he does his online school.)
The Ashley hears that Barbara and Jenelle got into a big argument about this situation. However, Jace will be living on The Land full-time (while Barb retains legal custody). The paperwork they’re signing simply makes it legal for Jace to live with Jenelle and not Barb.
UPDATE #2! Jenelle says Barbara lied to TMZ and that Jace is moving to The Land due to his bad behavior. Click here for more details!
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That poor boy has some serious issues… I am sincerely afraid for his life now that he is around David full time. David & Jenelle are not equipped to deal with Jace. I am so afraid someone is going to snap. Place him up for adoption and let someone who will actually care about this child raise him.
She has a lot of growing up to do.she needs to remember they are her kids and they need to be first. NOT a her or her HUSBAND..
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“In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
Promises made, promises kept. Go get’em Jelly!
stay lit, positive vibs only
is this quote something you wrote? its really beautiful- sounds like something from Greek Mythology. impressive!
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Jace has pre-teen behavioral problems and David is a controlling, dog murdering, hot-headed gun nut.
Now all happening under ONE roof.
This sad story gets sadder and more volatile by the minute.
SMDH
TMZ is reporting that Barbara said she still has custody of Jace and Jenelle misspoke. If it was Barbara, it sounds like Jenelle has him a good portion of the time during the week.
Here’s my prediction…Jace will shoot and possibly kill David and/or Junelle one day when it just gets to be too much. That poor kid has known since a small child how horrible his mother was. Babs has a good heart, but she raised a lot of dysfunctional people and her anger at his mother and him is very evident. Anger begets anger.
This isn’t good for him, but my guess his life with Babs now that there is no MTV to calm her down and keep her in check has just gotten horrible. I feel so sorry for him because he seems to have a good heart, just a lot of anger. Understandably.
Throughout Jace’s life he has not only had extreme tumultuous-ness and parental insecurities, but it has all been filmed. He has been getting the message that his Mother doesn’t want him, and now when he is growing into an adolescent, his Grandmother (the only real parent he has known) doesn’t want him. This combined with inherited genes of addiction (from both his biological parents) will cause some major challenges in his life. It’s paramount that Jace have something steady and everlasting- unchangeable in his life and perhaps that is one very, very good therapist.
Not to defend either of them, but I’m pretty sure CPS was involved in Barb getting custody of Jace. If I remember correctly, I think Jenelle was faced with the decision to either sign custody over to Barb or Jace goes into the system. Jenelle keeping custody was never an option.
This make me angry beyond words
Poor little guy… I’d like to be sarcastic and make a joke, like everytime about Juhnelle. But I can just pray for him and his siblings, I hope they’ll find help before a big drama on the Land.
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At the end of the day Barb is not young and dealing with a teen is exhausting. Jace is not her responsibility, I remember her telling Jenelle that she wouldn’t be raising her child when she was pregnant. Barb is no saint either like Jenelle didn’t lick her behaviour off a stone.
Jenelle has been quiet about this for a reason. “Getting Jace back” was her mantra for basically her whole existence on “Teen Mom 2”. Obviously there are some issues with Jace. He has ADHD (at one point Barbara was accusing Jenelle of not giving him his medication or stealing it, who knows).
Jace and Ensley were both positive for marijuana in their system at birth (i forget if kaiser was or not). That is obviously Jenelles doing. Barbara has never been mother of the year (she’s not patient and yells a lot), if she was all of her own kids wouldn’t have turned out the way they did. But she appeared to really try with Jace. She also isn’t on drugs, and more financially stable then Jenelle is.
The biggest concern I have for Jace is his safety being around David. Will the ability to be outdoors to burn off energy and be with his siblings be nice? Yes. Do I think Jenelle and David ever stopped drugs? No. David is also violent with drinking especially. Will Jenelle be able to help him with online learning? No, she doesn’t seem to have the patience nor the aptitude.
Jenelle and David are not only drug addicts but doomsday conspirists (and probably white supremists). Whatever going on with Jace must be pretty bad to put him in Jenelle and David’s care is my point.
Among many other things, I am worried that Jace will adopt David’s racist, bigoted beliefs and start channeling his frustrations and anger, which he certainly has given his horrible life and God awful parents, towards minorities. David is a grade A racist. It’s scary to think of what Jace will now hear being on The Land 24/7 and how it will affect him.
So sad. Every little born enters the world the same, yet get such different paths. Bently got Ryan but also got Maci, Jen, Larry and her parents. Isaac got kail, but got joe, vee, Joe’s parents and even Javi. Jace got Janelle and Barbara. That’s it. Those are his ONLY 2 voices.
So now both parents has given up on Jace. Poor little boy. Please God take care of him!
Jenelle dumped Jace onto Barb because she didn’t want to deal with him. Now Barb dumps Jace onto Jenelle because she doesn’t want to deal with him. Can’t wait to see how Jenelle handles those teenage years. Get the popcorn ready.
My SIL left her child with her parents since birth, while she man hopped. When not hoping beds, she lived at home with parents and kid. When she moved in with a man, she did not take kid. She would apply for state benefits as if she had kid though. She did get busted doing so. Though a few miles down the road, she never visited kid, took him anywhere but had kid call new guy, dad. When kid turned 15, she married current guy and decided she wanted to mother now. Kid is 22, no drivers license, lives at home, lazy af, accused, not convicted of statutory rape and reminds mom every single day that she abandoned kid for cock. grandparents tried, but they too raised the woman that abandoned him for cock
I don’t think David likes any kid if they’re not his (and even then it is questionable). It was actually Nathan though who was saying recently he has never liked Jace and that he was a bad kid.
This is messed up but I bet Jace can be a very bad kid. We know he’s had “anger outbursts” per Barbara and we know he threw something at Barbara’s face once not that long ago and injured her. I can see Jace physically bullying his siblings (and other kids). I bet his fights with Babs have been escalating and he’s big enough now that Babs truly can’t handle it and is probably afraid of him hurting her.
This is of course all a consequence of Jenelle being a low down dirty shit bag and Babs allowing said shit bag to come in and out of Jace’s life and her (Babs) own messed up parenting.
Nathan is a drunk piece of crap but I don’t think what he said just came out of nowhere. If i had a kid I wouldn’t want him or her around Jace either. From a very young age he was swearing and hitting (hmmm…wonder where he learned that from??!!). Nathan should NOT have said that stuff but I get it.
Poor Jace should have been put up for adoption as soon as Jenelle made it clear (I’m guessing the day they came home from the hospital) she had zero interest in parenting her sweet innocent baby and growing the eff up. Jace would have been snatched up sooo quick, he was a beautiful baby. He’d undoubtedly have problems because of genetics but being in a stable, loving home with non-toxic people who’d actually put HIS needs and well being first would have done wonders for this poor doomed kid. Ugh.
This was supposed to go here. Not to defend either of them, but I’m pretty sure CPS was involved in Barb getting custody of Jace. If I remember correctly, I think Jenelle was faced with the decision to either sign custody over to Barb or Jace goes into the system. Jenelle keeping custody was never an option.
This is such a shame but no surprise at all. Of course Jace is going to have emotional issues with all of the chaos he’s witnessed in his life and I predict that he’s only going to get way worse as he gets older. If he does actually stay on the land for an extended period of time, the fight to end it all between him and Lurch is going to be catastrophic. It’s all really sad, Jace’s inevitable tell-all is going to be second only to Sophia’s with all of the unbelievable atomic bombs dropped; I kind of can’t wait
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The older Jace gets, the more defiant he will become, and the more defiant he comes, the more violent and mean David will be. This isn’t good, and it’s not going to end well, for anyone.
With David around, and Jace already agitated and having issues, I fear for Jace’s physical safety. We know what David will do to a dog who pisses him off! But I can’t really blame Barb— she’s past retirement age, and it’s damn hard to manage a pre-teen boy alone under the best of circumstances. I hand it to her for trying her best for the past 11 years. I’m praying for them all.
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I fear that Jace will have a very bleak future: father a kid at a young age and screw it up, drop out of school, jail and likely prison. He’s been effed from the day he was brought into the Evans household and he won’t fare any better at the Eason household (he’ll probably start being a racist, close minded bigot like UBT). Why oh why didn’t those dysfunctional toxic bitches put that sweet baby up for adoption?
Jenelle was a worthless shit bag from day one. Barb tried but she gave Jenelle far too many chances and only hurt Jace by allowing Jenelle dip in and out of his life and bring her soul mate du jour around. I gave up all hope for Barb when she didn’t go for supervised or no visits after Jenelle took Jace on a high speed chase and brandished a gun in front of Jace, that Barb let that fly with no consequences is proof that his well being is not a priority, or at least not as important as Barb holding onto her toxic relationship with Jenelle.
I fear that Jace will have a very bleak future: father a kid at a young age and screw it up, drop out of school, jail and likely prison. He’s been effed from the day he was brought into the Evans household and he won’t fare any better at the Eason household (he’ll probably start being a racist, close minded bigot like UBT). Why oh why didn’t those dysfunctional toxic bitches put that sweet baby up for adoption?
Jenelle was a worthless shit bag from day one. Barb tried but she gave Jenelle far too many chances and only hurt Jace by allowing Jenelle to dip in and out of his life and bring her soul mates du jour around. I gave up all hope for Barb when she didn’t go for supervised or no visits after Jenelle took Jace on a high speed chase and brandished a gun in front of Jace, that Barb let that fly with no consequences is proof that his well being is not a priority, or at least not as important as Barb holding onto her toxic relationship with Jenelle.
To be honest, he’s only few years away from being a part of 16 and pregnant: the next generation.
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Her mom helped her a lot let’s Never forget that
No one has this kid’s best interest at heart. It’s absolutely horrible and it makes me sad for society. Jenelle once again gets what she wants and doesn’t seem to really have any consequences. Pure garbage.
Barbara may sign papers allowing Jace to live there but there is no way in hell that she will give her back custody. She’s saving that card for when the shit hits the fan on the Land (again…it’s like a never ending saga) Barbara can yank him out at any time.
Plus with Covid, I think it’s good to give Barbara a little vacation while Jace gets to be with his siblings.
I’m not buying the whole reason why he’s with Jenelle now because Jace and Barbara can’t stand each other anymore. I think a little “birdie” in the She-Shed slipped that one in for good measure.
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I’ve been rewatching the older episodes and the handwriting is on the wall for this poor child. He really never had a chance. He most likely needs therapy, and he needs an adult in his life that is stable. That’s probably not likely to happen. Hopefully once he is old enough he will be able to find a good path for himself.
I have also been rewatching, and have cried for Jace in some of the scenes in season 3 and 4. There is no chance any child in Barbara’s care could be free of major issues by adolescence. She is toxic, relentlessly abusive, and without a shred of genuine self-awareness. The idea of Jace, already struggling, now having to live under Jenelle and David’s roof is dreadful – dealing with a child who has serious emotional/behavior issues takes an incredible amount of compassion and patience. They have neither, and are unfit to keep pets, much less raise children. I am so deeply sorry for that child and hope that adulthood will bring him peace and freedom from the quagmire he was born into.
Phew! Being emotionally invested in this dumpster fire is not something I admit to in my real life, so thank you for letting me vent! 🙂
I think that Barbara probably has a good heart. And she stepped up and took care of Jace. But, yeah, she definitely has some issues that would make it hard for her to raise a child successfully. Like others have said it probably would have been a lot better if Jace had been put up for adoption. I do think that Barbara and Jenelle each love Jace, but they just can’t emotionally raise a family.
It’s been clear for some time that Jace has issues, and I absolutely support Barbara taking a break. She should never have been asked to raise him in the first place, but she did the right thing for as long as she could.
Unfortunately his behavior won’t change simply because he’s living with Jenelle, and I fear we will soon find out how David chooses to react to it because it’ll be splashed across headlines. He is now in the wrong house for troubled children. David Eason doesn’t react kindly to unruly children, even if they are five years old, so I shutter to think what he will do the first time Jace hurts Ensley.
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