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40-year-old dad tells wife he's traveling 10,000 miles to go to Burning Man in South Africa while she stays home with their 5-month-old baby: 'He needs a break and parenthood'

Emmy Pratt

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Grandma breaks into 19-year-old granddaughter's house when she's not home and riffles through her belongings: 'Just because she occasionally feeds me doesn’t give her the right to do this'

Emmy Pratt

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62-year-old father demands son give him $20,000 to start gas station business, flips out when he refuses and claims he's in debt to him: 'Over the years he’s started 30–40 business ventures'

Ally Perry

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'She's just a kid': 10-year-old stepdaughter gets overlooked during a family gathering when she's the only kid not to get a gift bag, leading her mom to confront the family

Bar Mor Hazut

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Dad refuses to pay $100k for his youngest daughter to have a 'princess wedding,' blames the in-laws for pressuring a frivolous formal event: 'The in-laws want a big splash'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Crooked father makes $1.2M a year and tries to get out of alimony payments to a 37-year-old's sick mother, son gets back at him for a lifetime of contemptible behavior by revealing Dad's earnings to the courts: 'I sided with mother'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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17-year-old begs her widower dad to take care of her and her 15-year-old brother after he leaves home to live with his late wife's best friend, his new girlfriend: 'He responded with saying there’s nothing for him to do at home'

Emmy Pratt

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'He was a stranger to me': Dad abandons 4-year-old son to be raised by his grandparents after his mom passes, wants him back when he's 10 so his 2nd wife can be his 'mom'

Emmy Pratt

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17-year-old takes all of the photographs of his late mother because his dad's 2nd wife doesn't want them in the house, wife yells at him for taking too many: 'She said 1 or 2 made sense but it felt like a big [insult] to her that I was taking them all'

Emmy Pratt

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Dad scolds his 16-year-old daughter for being more excited about her mom's pregnancy than her stepmoms, grounds her when she calls her stepmom a homewrecker: 'I have little respect for them and their blended family they force down my throat'

Emmy Pratt

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'Ask your 'real' family to do it': Half-sister stops babysitting her nephew for free after her older sibling denounces their bond at the family dinner

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Dad confronts his 26-year-old daughter's boyfriend of 10 years because he hasn't proposed yet, accuses him of playing house: 'What’s the plan here? You guys aren’t kids anymore.'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents demand adult daughter give up husband's office so they'd have a permanent guest room in her house, even though they never come to visit: ‘This is not up for discussion’

Bar Mor Hazut

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (March 25, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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'My daughter was snatched from my hands': Father of 4 gets tackled in public and arrested for kidnapping because his 3-year-old daughter has a different skin-tone than him

Emmy Pratt

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Pregnant fiancé eats her 10-year-old future stepdaughter's birthday cupcake in the middle of the night because of a 'craving,' then Dad steps up to defend his daughter's outrage: 'Pregnancy cravings don’t override basic decency'

Jesse Kessenheimer

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