Parenting Fail

'I’m not funding that fever dream': 27-year-old man refuses to attend or pay for his father’s wedding after discovering his dad is engaged to his serious ex-girlfriend Maya’s mother, sparking major family drama as the exes become step-siblings

Emma Saven

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16-year-old mom-to-be demands her stepmother take care of her baby during the day while she's at school: 'Everyone has told her multiple times that they aren't going to help her'

Emmy Pratt

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Mom forces 18-year-old daughter to shoplift from Target for her, gets angry when she refuses to visit home after she got arrested: 'I almost lost everything because I trusted my mom'

Emmy Pratt

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Homeschooled 15-year-old does math at a 5th-grade level, mom refuses to put her in public school, no matter how much she begs: 'I have NO IDEA WHAT TO DO!'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents refuse to let 23-year-old son to move out of the house because he takes care of his 15 and 16-year-old siblings: 'Who's gonna drive Jake to chess?'

JR Atkinson

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Stepmom refuses to hand over her stepson's family heirloom gold rings after holding onto them for ‘safekeeping,’ then tries to give him other rings as a replacement: ‘This is a huge betrayal of trust’

Lana DeGaetano

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Irresponsible mom abandons two babies with her 23-year-old sister, then comes back 6 years later with a new family, demanding involvement in the babies' lives again: ‘I looked after these children myself’

Lana DeGaetano

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Pregnant mom blocks fellow community parent after she insists that she watches her 9, 10, and 15-year-old kids for free so she can get her nails done and get a tattoo: ‘I immediately blocked her’

Lana DeGaetano

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23-year-old living at home installs lock on his mini fridge to stop himself from eating too much junk food, his parents call him disrespectful for locking up his belongings: ‘They're upset [you] created a boundary’

Lana DeGaetano

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‘She was always a selfish and neglectful parent’: Retired 63-year-old mom expects her 30-year-old daughter to become her full-time caretaker in old age, but daughter refuses

Lana DeGaetano

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Grandparents treat their son's kid as an afterthought, son threatens to keep her away from them if they don't spend one-on-one time with her: 'In 3 years [...] my parents have had my daughter overnight fewer than ten times'

JR Atkinson

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Spoiled twin lies to mother about her cousin not letting her use her room or TV, mother takes her anger out on the cousin: ‘I barely go to her house anymore’

Lana DeGaetano

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Stepmom and dad refuse to let 19-year-old college student come home for Thanksgiving, says she has to find her own place to live during summer vacation: 'Nobody told me I was completely on my own now'

Emmy Pratt

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5th grade math teacher refuses to plan homeschool reading curriculum for her 5-year-old nephew despite her sister-in-law's insistence: 'My sister-in-law is saying it’s my duty as a family member to help educate her son'

Emmy Pratt

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Aunt harvests all produce from her niece's garden to take home, her niece's mother gave her the green light to do it: ‘Who needs enemies when you have family’

Lana DeGaetano

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Parents refuse to let college-aged kid take 2-week vacation with his own money since they're paying his tuition: 'Imagine being so miserly and controlling you deny your child one little vacation that he's saved to pay for'

JR Atkinson

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