Dad buys 17-year-old daughter a new car, mom demands she use it to give half-siblings rides and help around the house, daughter refuses: ‘I don’t like any of them’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jun 22, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

When a teen first gets their driver's license, they will find any excuse to get behind the wheel and drive around town. 

Mom wants to go grocery shopping? Does your younger brother need a ride to his Karate class? Grandma wants to go check out nursery homes? 'Say less', you declare as you get inside the driver's seat, ready to be of service.

That is all fun and games at the start, driving around, feeling like an adult, knowing you can go anywhere you want without having to depend on anyone else, it's a great feeling. At least, it's a great feeling until people start taking advantage of that. Until friends start calling you at 11 PM to take them home from a hangout you weren't invited to, or your mom wakes you up at 7:00 AM to drive your siblings to school.

For any teen out there who is on the verge of getting their driver's license, just know that at a certain point, you will become the personal driver of the family. Unless you are anything like the teenage daughter in the story below, who refused to help her mom and half-siblings, since it is not her job.

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    AITAH for not buying my half siblings things, not giving them rides, etc, because I don’t have to

    Hey Reddit. I am 17f and I live in a 'blended family'. We do not get along. My parents divorced when I was 2 and my mother
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    remarried a year after. I have a step sister who's also 17f, and two half siblings, 14f, 12m.
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    My father is pretty well off and I stay with him one week, my mother the next week. My dad pays child support but it gets eaten
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    up by my younger sisters medical bills. My mom and stepdad are pretty poor. We live in a really small house and they are always complaining about not
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    being able to pay the bills, credit card debt, etc. They can't buy us new clothes, we don't get Christmas gifts, etc.
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    My dad bought me a car for my 16th birthday. A new '24 Nissan Sentra. My mom and stepdad share one older car between them, and they expected my car
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    to be the second family car. My dad told my mother if anyone but me drives it he will report it as stolen. He encouraged me not drive
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    around anyone I don't want to. I don't really like my stepsister and half siblings. My stepsister smokes all the time, is barely going
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    to graduate and I honestly don't see her doing anything with her life. My younger half siblings are annoying and bratty.
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    My dad gives me spending money and anytime I go out to dinner or buy myself stuff my siblings are always asking me to buy them things, give them rides, etc.
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    I always say no. I don't like any of them and I can't wait to move out on my 18th. My mom and stepdad try to shame me into spending
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    money on my step/half siblings. They say it's not fair I always wear new clothes when my siblings live below the poverty line.
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    I have told them they should've have had kids they already knew they couldn't afford, and it's not my problem. My step sister
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    even stole an expensive purse of mine once and my dad reported it to the police. She got a warning and had to give it back, and
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    was told she wouldn't get a warning next time. Things have been really tense, and they all make me out to be the villain.
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    Meanwhile I'm just trying to get through my mom's custody time so I can be with my dad and stepmom. AITAH?
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    Leading Custard 7251 Honestly, you're not obligated to support people just because you're related. It sounds like your mom and stepdad are putting a
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    lot of unfair pressure on you, and your dad is right to set boundaries around your things. You're not a villain for protecting what's yours.
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    Ok_Cress8566 Your mom isn't supposed to be using child support money for child that isn't your dad's. Is that the case? Tell your dad. Can you move in with him?
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    Itsthethrowaway2 Can you get emancipated or have your dad petition for custody? Or would your mom just be okay with you leaving on your own volition? Sounds like it's better for everyone if you live with your dad
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    TheWorldTurnsAround Your mom and stepdad are really going to freak out when you're old enough that your dad doesn't have to pay child support. As long as you are not flaunting your dad's wealth, NTA.
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