Parenting FAILS

‘She'll always be my daughter and needs help’: Caring father allows his pregnant 18-year-old daughter to move into his home after her mom kicks her out, then refuses to compromise with his newly-moved-in long-term girlfriend when she objects

Lana DeGaetano

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'That's tacky': Parents request guests at their 8-year-old daughter's birthday party give cash instead of presents

Emmy Pratt

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Entitled mother demands adult child to invite her casual boyfriend and his kids to their child's first birthday party, then refuses to attend the party alone when the parents refuse to extend the invitation: ‘That's her loss’

Lana DeGaetano

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'I had zero remorse': Mother treats her daughter to Korean BBQ because they both share a love for Asian cuisine, but her husband insists the rest of the family attend and tries to ruin their dining experience

Lana DeGaetano

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Entitled family expects pregnant woman to sacrifice half of her $50k house deposit to buy her sister an apartment, she refuses: ‘We wouldn’t be able to buy our house as the mortgage repayments would be too expensive’

Lana DeGaetano

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'He said it looks like a shrine. Cult like': 29-year-old dad forces his 16-year-old brother to remove all the posters from his room before his 6-year-old arrives

JR Atkinson

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Mom uses $15K from her 21-year-old son's college fund to pay for her 24-year-old daughter's wedding venue: 'He told us college was a scam for sheep and that he would be a millionaire before his friends even graduated'

Emmy Pratt

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Father buys son a luxury car for his 16th birthday, then his ex-wife scolds him for refusing to financially contribute to her new family: ‘Why would I be the one to buy them a car?’

Lana DeGaetano

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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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