Job interview process?

If a candidate is accompanied by his mother for a job interview (who did not seek to sit in on the process itself) does it make sense to even conduct the interview?

• It so happened that we were conducting interviews for a job (this was for freshers). We noticed that one kid had actually come up with his mother. When we asked him for the reason he said she had come to give him moral support and ensure that he answers his interview well. As we conducted the interview we were disappointing as we realized that the candidate was getting stressed easily, unsure of himself. For some of our questions his answers were "This was not there in our syllabus". Note: This is in India

• Answer:

  [NB: The question has been edited (by agreement with the OP - please see the comments to this answer) - the mother in question did not actually accompany her son into the interview. My answer was given when it appeared she did. ] No. It does not make sense to continue with the interview. It is easy to make all sorts of pejorative assumptions about what sort of person would attend a job interview with his mother, so let us just stick to the facts: You are interviewing - or supposed to be interviewing - the candidate him or herself. Not their mother, not their best friend or significant other. Them. It is their responses to your questions you seek in order to evaluate their candidacy. If the candidate had (don't ask me how though) showed promise or (????) been offered the position it is them that you would be employing. Not their mother, best friend, significant other etc. etc. Are they going to waste time on every occasion they must make a decision by phoning their mother? I am entirely unsurprised that the candidate seemed easily stressed and unsure of himself when his own family evidently do not rate him to the extent that they have confidence to comport himself adequately - or at least 'with honour' at something as common place as an interview. What were you expecting? What the Hell was going through your mind when you agreed to this farce? I started this answer by saying I would try to avoid making assumptions and I am trying - hard - but frankly: to have one's mother accompany one to a job interview is just plain weird. In any culture, at any time. I personally would have cancelled the interview then and there and maybe - maybe - told the candidate I wished to interview him alone. I may or may not have also told the mother openly that she was not doing her son any favours; quite the opposite in fact. Man, I thought I had heard or seen everything when it came to job interviews. Plainly not.