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Father carrying sleeping baby girl in bedroom at home.

Dad didn't feed his 5-month-old baby while Mom was out for hours, claiming it was because she didn't leave instructions: 'Had I not come home, baby wouldn’t have eaten for 5 hours or more.'

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Parents take 60% of their 21-year-old son's paycheck, eat all of his food, and ban him from cooking after 7:45 PM: 'My dad has been unemployed since January.'

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Mom accuses sister of making her and her 5-year-old daughter homeless because she's moving out of their shared apartment in a year: 'She makes $14 an hour.'

A little boy draws with markers.

Mom removes pink crayons and markers from her son's school supplies because she thinks that pink is for girls: 'Now that boy is going to have to color a flamingo brick red.'

Kindergarten students, who should be able to manage going to the bathroom independently, especially if they can read and write independently.

Irresponsible parents send their 5-year-old kids to Kindergarten without being potty trained: 'It’s basically learned helplessness. They know mom is going to change them, so they just don’t care.'

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A mom is shopping for food with her daughter before criticizing her for her weight.

Mom cruelly tells her daughter that she is skinner than her, fellow grocery shopper puts her in her place: 'No, you're not'

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Entitled iPad mom says her kid's tablet is more important than a traveling employee's job in an attempt to commandeer the occupied charging station at the airport: ‘Whatever you're doing can wait'

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Girlfriend breaks up with her 34-year-old boyfriend because he hasn't seen his daughter since April of 2025: 'He sold himself as a great present dad, and I bought it.'

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Mom forces 19-year-old daughter to use her $7000 of scholarship money to buy her grandma a new trailer home: 'She says she will pay me back, but I don't trust her.'

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Dad refuses to call an ambulance for his 25-year-old son, whose spleen ruptured, because he was at work and ambulances are expensive: 'He looked at me and asked if I could drive myself.'

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Single mom resents 17-year-old daughter for going on a school trip and leaving her alone for her 60th birthday: 'She hasn’t acknowledged the fact that I will be completely alone for my birthday.'

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Dad forces 15-year-old son to drop out of high school and work for the family business, tells the state he's homeschooling him: 'He was bragging about how our state doesn’t check that an education is actually being provided.'

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29-year-old mother of 6 demands her 34-year-old sister house, feed, and financially support her, her kids, and her husband: 'I cannot handle 8 children and 3 adults in my home. I cannot feed all those mouths.'

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Crazy man spits on 15-year-old on NYC subway train, mom can't understand why she's still affected by it 4 years later: 'She’s sworn to never go back to New York City.'

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Aunt unfollows 13-year-old niece on TikTok, mom scolds her for hurting her teenage daughter's self-esteem: 'I unfollowed you because I don’t want a 13-year-old dancing on my page'

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Mom forces 16-year-old daughter to get a job to support the family after her husband lost his job: 'Why can your daughter get a job but not your husband?'

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