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40-year-old mom refuses to let her friend's thieving 10-year-old daughter stay at her house unsupervised, friend freaks out: 'Is there anything she could have stolen that’s worth the price of a friendship?'

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Mom tells 3.5-year-old daughter that she looks super ugly after she refused to change out of her cowboy boots for school: 'Is it wrong to tell her how ugly her outfit looked?'

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'That's tacky': Parents request guests at their 8-year-old daughter's birthday party give cash instead of presents

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14-year-old begs 20-year-old sister who has 3 kids under 3 to not have a 4th baby: 'She doesn't clean up after kids. She leaves diapers everywhere.'

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Boy mom forces son's 17-year-old girlfriend of 2.5 years to do chores while she's at their house, sits between the couple on the couch while watching movies: 'I'm pretty sure she adores me!!'

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Mom uses $15K from her 21-year-old son's college fund to pay for her 24-year-old daughter's wedding venue: 'He told us college was a scam for sheep and that he would be a millionaire before his friends even graduated'

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Homeschool mom brags about her 4-year-old not knowing her numbers and letters and her 8-year-old who can't read chapter books: 'So sick of this lazy hippie homeschooling mentality'

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25-year-old germaphobe dreaming of motherhood thinks she'll be able to train her future children not to be dirty and gross: 'She thinks if we just work at it, we have a spotless house and a spotless kid.'

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Dad forces 17-year-old son to babysit his fiancée's 3-year-old and 6-month-old, son walks out of the house to avoid the unwanted duty: 'Their mom was home'

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30-year-old stepmom refuses to adopt her 12-year-old stepdaughter because she doesn't think they're close enough: 'Her mom passed when she was 2! This woman is the only mother she's got.

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17-year-old refuses to forgive dad for prioritizing his 2nd wife and her kids over him after he lost his mother when he was 13: 'I told him that he was too late'

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35-year-old offers to buy his 64-year-old parents a house, forbids them from allowing his 42-year-old brother to live with them: 'My mom has always loved my brother more'

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Stepdad pushes 17-year-old stepson to accept him as his dad because he has been his father figure for 9 years and his late father was for merely 7 years: 'He said he deserves to be recognized instead of the ghost.'

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Mom of a 3 and 7-year-old sobs in TSA line after airport security directs her husband to a different line: 'I was managing both kids' backpacks, I kept dropping and spilling things'

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18-year-old only child cuts off parents because they prioritized their disorderly foster kids over their own son: 'My extended family told me it was disgusting to turn my back on my parents'

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Parents hide Yale and West Point athletic scholarships from their 17-year-old son, don't tell him about them until he's 24: 'You aren't that smart anyway'

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'I don't think this job aligns with my principles': Job applicant walks out of interview after hiring manager tells her that the role involves unpaid overtime

'I don't think this job aligns with my principles': Job applicant walks out of interview after hiring manager tells her that the role involves unpaid overtime

'My backyard looks like a construction site': Dad insists on using 29-year-old daughter's yard as business storage, flips out when she tells him to stop

'My backyard looks like a construction site': Dad insists on using 29-year-old daughter's yard as business storage, flips out when she tells him to stop

15-year-old acts cruelly toward her stepmother when her father remarries 2 years after her biological mom's passing, her uncle decides to become her legal guardian so she can heal: ‘She's happy to no longer live with her’

15-year-old acts cruelly toward her stepmother when her father remarries 2 years after her biological mom's passing, her uncle decides to become her legal guardian so she can heal: ‘She's happy to no longer live with her’

‘He didn’t have my back at all. I ended up walking away’: 3 Stepdaughters insult stepmom on a camping trip, so she refuses to serve them dinner at home, causing a huge argument about her partner siding with his kids

‘He didn’t have my back at all. I ended up walking away’: 3 Stepdaughters insult stepmom on a camping trip, so she refuses to serve them dinner at home, causing a huge argument about her partner siding with his kids

Man kicks entitled cousin out of his apartment after he pushes every boundary, treating it like a free buffet and swap shop: ‘I tried helping him out, but he acted like being my guest gave him free food, free laundry, and even free clothes’

Man kicks entitled cousin out of his apartment after he pushes every boundary, treating it like a free buffet and swap shop: ‘I tried helping him out, but he acted like being my guest gave him free food, free laundry, and even free clothes’

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