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Stepdad tells 15-year-old stepson that if he doesn't let him adopt him, he'll be the reason he gets divorced from his mother: 'He said he's tired of being dismissed as a dad, and if I don't accept him, then he's done'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents make daughter buy family's groceries since age 12, dad refuses to contribute and weaponizes incompetence when forced to: 'Your parents are terrible. Both of them'

JR Atkinson

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Mom confronts dad of teenage daughter's boyfriend for breaking up with her daughter 'the wrong way,' dad says her daughter 'isn't special': 'You really need to work on your empathy'

JR Atkinson

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Mom asks unemployed 23-year-old son to do 10 hours of housework in exchange for bailing him out of debt, son wants to count the 5 hours he spend attending a concert with her: 'Stop enabling him'

JR Atkinson

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Childless aunt refuses to pay for her 18-year-old niece's college after she joked about having tons of money and no responsibilities: ' She rolled her eyes and said it was just a joke, and I needed to lighten up'

Emmy Pratt

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Husband throws a fit after wife chooses their 13-year-old daughter's omelette in a cooking competition over his, claims she's babying her: 'Big man baby'

JR Atkinson

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16-year-old gives candy to the 3 students who were listening to her in-class presentation, gets harassed for candy by the kids who were on their phones the whole time: 'The teacher told us we could give out candy'

Emmy Pratt

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Extended family sneaks bacon grease and other meats into their teenage vegetarian family member's meals for years, claim it was for her own good: 'They kept smiling and giggling about it, so it felt like more of a joke'

Emmy Pratt

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Deceptive family sneaks meat into vegetarian's meals without telling her, refuse to apologize years later: 'They actually did this to humiliate her'

JR Atkinson

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16-year-old photoshops a picture of her 6-year-old brother with Daniel Radcliffe, finally tells him the picture was fake after 14 years: 'His memory of the fake meeting felt so real to him that it became one of his proudest stories'

Emmy Pratt

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'She is distraught': Mom takes away her 13-year-old daughter's middle school graduation trip because she didn't clean her room, texted her ex-boyfriend, and hung out with her friend too long at a school event

Emmy Pratt

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Foster parents put strict restrictions on 15-year-old's phone and do the same when his biodad buys him a new one, 15-year-old complains that they're hypocritical: 'They have no choice'

JR Atkinson

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Neurosurgeon mom criticizes 17-year-old daughter for entering and placing 2nd in a cooking competition, tells her to focus on school instead: 'She said I was wasting my time on hobbies'

Emmy Pratt

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17-year-old refuses to spend Thanksgiving with her mom and her new boyfriend, mom calls her selfish and disrespectful: 'Spending Thanksgiving with a man I barely know and his children is not my ideal scenario'

Emmy Pratt

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Parents force 16-year-old son to tutor his failing twin sister and carry her down the stairs after she broke her foot, gets in trouble when he refuses: 'I told her I am not her caregiver all the time and she needs to do stuff herself'

Emmy Pratt

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'They said mom was a lunatic and should be ashamed of herself for ruining my life': 16-year-old calls out grandparents after they claimed her mother abandoned her because she was hospitalized for post-partum psychosis after she was born

Emmy Pratt

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