'Not again!': Son loses it after his parents announce he will have an eighth sibling

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 24, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

If you had to pretty much singlehandedly take care of all your siblings, wouldn't you also react this way?

This Redditor took the Internet for justification after he reacted poorly to the news that his parents were having an eighth child despite their financial struggles and living arrangements. It's one thing to be the eldest sibling and to have to look after your family every once in a while. It's quite another when you have essentially become a third parent in the family, as folks in the comments section pointed out. It's unfair and damaging to the future of the Redditor, who is currently on the brink of adulthood and deserves the chance to think about his own life and professional career.

Keep scrolling below for the full family drama and for the best reactions in the comments section. For more tales of parenting woes, check out these fresh parenting memes.

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    "We're really too big of a family"
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    AITA for what I said when my parents announced they were having another baby?
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    My parents have 7 kids. There's me (16m), Cayla (13f), Robin (12m), Sam (10m), Laci (8f), Zoe (6f) and Robbie (4m). They only ever intended to have two kids and even with me and Cayla alone,
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    they'd still struggle. My parents don't have great jobs. We never had much space in our house to begin with and now we're all crammed in. I started
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    working at 13 to get money so I could pay for stuff I needed, like a laptop, which I didn't have access to when my school first shut down.
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    We didn't even have internet then. My parents swore they were done with Robbie and they'd get us back on track and that I wouldn't need to work just to pay for stuff I needed for school. The
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    weight of being the oldest is already a lot and I have paid for stuff before. I babysit so my parents can work nights or get a break. I take care of the house most days so they
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    can focus on earning money. But it's a lot and we're really too big of a family for what we can actually afford. My
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    parents get help from the government but it doesn't go far because they're not good with money or with buying groceries.
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    When no baby came right after Robbie I thought they were serious and I started to think about my future. I'd love to learn to
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    cook better and work in a restaurant. Not college exactly because we could never afford it and my grades aren't good enough but something.
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    Then Monday my parents sat us down and told us they're having another baby and mom is like 14 weeks pregnant. They
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    knew for 7 weeks and didn't want to tell us until they were ready. My siblings were mostly surprised but me? I said
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    not again. I think I even cried a little which caught me off guard because I'm not a crier usually. This
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    was apparently enough to break me though. My parents got so angry at me and told me to check my attitude. I told them they gave me this attitude
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    by being so reckless and putting so much on me and now they've broken their promise and we're going to struggle even more than before. They
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    told me to stop acting like they're doing something to me, that accidents happen and they'd never even if they could.
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    They told me to focus on making things okay and less on being so negative.
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    I know people say that having money isn't as important as long as you have a loving family and maybe that's true for some people. But mine
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    feel like a weight I have to carry and not something I'm blessed with. They're a responsibility on me, a
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    burden really. And maybe that's awful to say but it's how I really feel. I hate worrying about what'll happen if they can't afford the bills or if my laptop breaks and I can't
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    afford to fix it or get a new one. Or what if we can't afford food or we can but I have to pay for groceries instead of save. AITA?
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    OkHoverc... 3h ago NTA. This is a no- win situation. You do not have to ever baby-sit your siblings. That is not your responsibility.
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    But then, if you didn't watch the kids, there would be less money to feed the kids.
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    Essentially, there are 3 parents in this household and two of them are acting very irresponsible, which is increasing the workload of parent number 3.
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    happybanana134 • 3h ago NTA. Your feelings are perfectly reasonable. You still need to think about your future; don't let their decision to have another child de-rail you. Keep saving. Groceries are NOT your responsibility.
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