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'I do more than most fathers': 37-year-old husband fails to take care of 6-year-old and 4-year-old for a couple hours while wife is away, gets upset when wife calls him out

JR Atkinson

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Stepmom insists 16-year-old stepson calls her mom and lets her adopt him after being married to his dad for 1 year, gets offended when he refuses: 'I already have a mom'

Ally Perry

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Eldest brother cuts off his ‘struggling’ siblings after he finds out they've been freeloading for years despite a secret stash of money: ‘[I was] paying for their education, food, and other necessities while working to keep myself afloat’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'What exactly where they expecting?': Wife kicks out her husband's cousins after she becomes the punchline of an unfunny April Fool's joke, he supports her completely and they break contact with the family

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Childfree 24-year-old aunt refuses to babysit for her sister's energetic 2, 4, and 7-year-olds while she's working from home, gladly babysits her brother's calm 6-year-old twins: 'I can’t watch a difficult kid while I work.'

Emmy Pratt

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Woman tricked into a SAHM role after her MIL conspires with her husband, brainwashing him into forgetting their pre-baby agreements to maintain both careers and get a nanny: 'Now my husband refuses to lift a finger because he's the ‘provider’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Estranged father demands son allow him to see his grandson, son agrees only if dad's new wife stays out of it, dad refuses: ‘You're trying to keep him away from me’

Bar Mor Hazut

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Grandma sneaks off with her 6-month-old grandchild to get a secret baptism against the parents' will, loses babysitting rights as soon as Mom and Dad find out: ‘She had no right to take my child anywhere without telling me’

Jesse Kessenheimer

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'Suddenly I owned 50% of my parent's apartment': 24-year-old inherits property after his estranged bio father passes, claiming what's his after a lifetime of being sidelined by his mother's favoritism for his half-brother

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Single dad berates his 15-year-old son's 17-year-old girlfriend after he finds them together after he forbade them from dating until his son's grades improved: 'If I ever catch you two together again, it won't be pretty for either of you'

Emmy Pratt

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38-year-old daughter refuses to let 65-year-old father move into purpose-built in-law apartment because of childfree stepmom: 'They joked about kids being ungrateful, expensive, needy'

Ally Perry

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20-year-old sister agrees to take custody of her 11, 12, and 14-year-old siblings, enrages their dad who's forcing his 2nd wife into the mother role: 'The best place for them is with two parents'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom disinvites grandparents from 4-year-old's birthday party after mother-in-law jokes about her being an 'oopsie baby': 'I felt heartbroken for her'

Ally Perry

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The Most Entertaining Parenting Texts of the Week (April 1, 2025)

Emmy Pratt

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17-year-old refuses to meet his absent dad's baby after his ex wife constantly harasses him begging him to have a relationship with his half-sibling: 'She's been calling me names and saying only a monster wouldn't love their own sibling.'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom feeds 13-year-old girls pizza, donuts, and chips at sleepover, other moms call her a 'lousy mother' for feeding them junk: '[She said] her daughter would no longer be coming to any events at my home'

JR Atkinson

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