 Alf lost contact with the family until Beatlemania, when he and his son met again.She took John back to her house and enrolled him in a local school, but after a few weeks she handed him back to Mimi.Various reasons have been suggested for her decision, such as Dykins' unwillingness to raise the young boy, Julia's inability to cope with the responsibility, or a punishment forced on her by Mimi and her father for "living in sin".