Parenting Fail

Parents force older siblings to pay for 20-year-old sister's flight to Disney, she refuses to go out of solidarity for siblings: 'My parents are extremely wealthy doctors who own their own business. None of us kids are financially comfortable.'

JR Atkinson

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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.'

Emmy Pratt

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28-year-old son refuses to take on $250k debt from his parents’ two unstable family businesses, but might end up to selling their family home to make ends meet: ‘If I co-sign for this debt, I'm legally responsible for it’

Lana DeGaetano

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31-year-old divorced mom of a 9 and 11-year-old refuses to meet with ex-husbands 2nd wife who wants to usurp her as the mother figure in her children's lives: 'They told me to get used to hearing her called mom because they would not stop it.'

Emmy Pratt

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21-year-old daughter refuses to sign on as a potential legal guardian to her estranged dad's new 4-year-old stepchild: ‘My life is separate from them... I have no wish for anything closer’

Lana DeGaetano

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Single mom allows her kids to skip their uncle's celebration of life because their father's new girlfriend will be in attendance: ‘[My son] expresses that he does not want her there’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘I felt like collateral damage in their attempts to cut my mom out’: Paternal family cuts contact with woman and her mother following a divorce, so the woman tells her cousins the truth about how they treated her over 8 years later

Lana DeGaetano

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34-year-old mom forbids 13-year-old daughter from cutting her waist-length blonde hair to impress her 14-year-old crush: 'She called me an overbearing mom'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents pressure 32-year-old daughter to fix the rift between her 36-year-old estranged identical twin sisters: 'They said I'm the person who could bring them together'

Emmy Pratt

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37-year-old aunt gifts $7K to her 17-year-old niece for college, 40-year-old mom spends it all on her prom and asks aunt to give her $2K: 'I told her no. And now it’s a full-on meltdown.'

Emmy Pratt

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35-year-old roasts her boyfriend's 19-year-old son for complaining that his mom doesn't clean the house enough after she lost her mother and her husband

Emmy Pratt

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Stepdad refuses to acknowledge his 6-year-old stepdaughter after divorcing her mom, only spends time with his 18-month-old biological daughter: 'I feel she’s no longer my responsibility'

Emmy Pratt

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Divorced dad pays off family home in place of child support and leaves his 21-year-old kid half of the house, her mother demands she surrender her half so she has full ownership: ‘I would be kicked out immediately’

Lana DeGaetano

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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.

Emmy Pratt

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19-year-old refuses to be the English translator for her parents after her 22-year-old brother also learns English: 'I've been forced to do it since I was 11'

Emmy Pratt

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‘It's as if they think that they are entitled to using our apartment as a motel’: Ungrateful family of 3 actively attempts to squat in 16-year-old's family's ‘tiny’ apartment before they go on vacation

Lana DeGaetano

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