17-year-old leaves to stay with grandparents after parents announce pregnancy with 7th child, parents threaten to sue them: ' They're threatening to sue them now'

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Mar 7, 2025 12:00 PM EST

It's a shame when things turn out this way but sometimes it's for the best. This exasperated and exhausted teen shared their experience with this online community, wondering if they were in the wrong for leaving to stay with their grandparents after their parents announced yet another pregnancy, which would add another child in the household with the teen and their already five siblings. The teen was sick and tired of being the effective third parent and default babysitter of their siblings and so left to live with their grandparents, earning the ire of their parents who threatened to sue the grandparents for refusing to make the teen leave and return home.

Not really sure you're able to sue someone just because your almost adult child is choosing to live with them instead of in your custody. Either way, it should be simple for the grandparents and the 17-year-old to prove the unfitness of their parents to care for them, which may cause other issues and knock-on effects for them with the custody of their other children too once the authorities get involved. But maybe it needs to happen, and besides, they were the ones to cast the first stone. 

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  • In the end, they're just upset that they're losing their default babysitter and third parent and this 17-year-old is wise to cut ties and look toward their own future since their parents don't really have anything they can offer them to help them with their own future. 

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    "So last week when my mom and dad announced mom's pregnant again I called my grandparents so fast my head was probably spinning"

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    "AITA for moving in with my grandparents the same day my parents announced my mom's pregnant again?"

    My parents had me (17m) when they were 19 (mom) and 20 (dad). We lived with my mom's parents until I was 6. Then my parents moved the three of us into another house and told me the reason was because they were having another kid. In the almost 11 years since then my parents had five more kids. My parents don't know how to be parents and my siblings don't know how to act because of that. They spit, mess with people's food by like slobbering all over it or putting it in their own mouths and spitti
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    Like if my mom gets froze pizzas for dinner and there's something my siblings don't like on it the topping goes on the floor. They have tantrums in public and break stuff all the time. With my youngest current sibling my parents put her in my room when she was a baby instead of theirs and I had to wake up with her at night and deal with the dirty diapers and stuff. It was stressful. Plus my parents are always trying to make me babysit and stuff.
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    So last week when my mom and dad announced mom's pregnant again I called my grandparents so fast my head was probably spinning and I begged them to let me come live with them because I couldn't deal with it anymore. They were furious when they heard mom was expecting another kid and said yes straight away. I packed up my essentials (including my passport and other papers) and I left. My parents are p ed because they don't have help and because I didn't talk to them about it. My grandparents deal
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    Lost_Needleworker285 Nta, and for reference you're 17 the police aren't going to do anything, so just ignore your parents they have no solid ground to stand on.
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    ZookeepergameWise774 NTA. Let them threaten to sue. I mean...... sue for what, exactly? Removal of the unpaid nanny service? Getting a life and an education? They've called the cops twice, and obviously, that didn't work, so now they're trying another tactic. Newsflash - that won't work either. No court is ever going to look at this. Tell them that if they don't back off, you'll report them for child neglect. (The way your siblings are being reared is certainly not good parenting.)
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    Poetryinsimplethings I would be petty and called CPS on them every time they called the cops. Let them explain to both the cops and CPS that they are suing the grandparents because they can't parentify their 17yrs old because of them. NTA
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    Senior_Hall_1989 NTA-coming from a mom of 4 kids (1 teenager and 3 adults) YOUR parents are lazy disrespectful parents to lazy disrespectful kids. You leaving at 17 is a good thing. Their children are NOT your problem. Help your grandparents while living there. Keep a clean house and keep good grades. (That advice is if cops or cops try and say anything -that is to cover your bt) Be respectful to them and help them. Go live your life! Always protect yourself and your grandparents. You got this!!
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