Parents miss their adopted 18-year-old daughter's graduation ceremony to buy their spoiled 10-year-old a $350 Labubu doll; betrayed teen moves out immediately: ‘Princess was clearly the favorite’

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 14, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Picking a favorite child is an insane thing for a parent to do. While you can secretly have a favorite child—whether it's the one you get along with, the easy kid, or just the most mellow child of the bunch—it's positively unethical and cruel to make that favoritism known in any way. While it's human nature to rank things, it's pretty evil and just downright bad parenting to rank your kids against each other—especially when your "least favorite" kid is the adopted one. 

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  • Becoming a parent is harder than you'd think for some people. Fertility issues are rampant these days, and while it's troubling to watch the pursuit of parenthood dishevel a couple, it's extremely common. Couples who undergo fertility treatments are either made or broken by the process, and when the couple in this next story realized they couldn't concieve, they finally threw in the towel and adopted an infant. 

    Miraculously, 8 years later, they naturally had their own child. After naming her Princess, she was treated as such, and the parents made it abundantly clear which kid was their favorite… All the way up until their 18-year-old's graduation ceremony. 

  • AITA for "running away" because my parents were late to my graduation over a Labubu? Okay, I know this sounds so ridiculous and insane.
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  • I (18F) am adopted and was adopted as a baby. My parents thought they couldn't have kids, even tried IVF, so when my sister Princess (10F) was born, it was a miracle. Everything changed. Princess was spoiled and clearly the favorite. She never got in trouble, was always right, got WHATEVER she wanted and acted HOWEVER she wanted.
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  • My parents didn't treat me badly though, but if I got 1 toy, Princess got 5. It sucked, I was jealous, and I got in trouble for it. Princess got worse around age 6 when she realized how much she could get away with. She broke my
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  • things, hurt others, stole, and hated when anyone else had attention. I became a target. Luckily, I had friends, school, and relatives for support though so it wasn't the worst. I did great in school and joined clubs and sports just to stay out of the house. During summer I worked or interned just to avoid her.
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  • Now I have a car and a boyfriend (since sophomore year). I stay with him a lot and his family loves me so I'm barely home, maybe 24 hours at most weekly. My parents didn't care and this was my normal so I stopped caring too.
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  • Anyway graduation was last month, one of the few things I asked my parents to come to. I was excited, they seemed excited, and some relatives came too. But Princess had to ruin it. See her current obsession are these doll plush keychains called Labubus,
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  • she collects them and that specific day, she found this super rare one for sale in our city. Now instead of contacting the seller and buying it the next day, my parents went to go get it and not only that spent $350. (my grad gift was $150) Then they showed up so late, our caps were already being tossed.
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  • I was hurt. After graduation, I ignored them and went home with my boyfriend. I've basically moved in with him at this point since anytime I went back "home" it was to get my things to go back. My parents called, texted, apologized, even came over and begged me to forgive them, worst part of it all, they think it's the money and sent me another hundred dollars. I refused to talk to them.
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  • Now it's serious as they're threatening to report me as missing/ a runaway and contact my future college if I don't go back home. I feel justified in my actions and don't think it's that serious but AITA?
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  • TarzanKitty ⚫ NTA You are a HS graduate and a legal adult. You didn't run away. You simply moved out. Tell your parents to have fun "reporting" you. The only thing they might have a case on is the car. Who is the legal title holder?
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  • Inside_Major_8078. NTA You are 18, a legal adult. They can't do diddly squat about college either. ENJOY YOUR LIFE!!!!!
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  • Historical_Ice3189 ABSOLUTELY NOT... sibling favoritism is so crazy to me and i think it's so unfair to the one being treated poorly. The fact that they only thought it was about the money speaks high volumes about their character. it doesn't help their case
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  • either that they adopted you and can't show you the same love they have for their "real" offspring. i hate that you're experiencing this.. i wouldn't forgive them nor would i go back to their house for a good while. until they can understand what they are doing is completely unacceptable... which im sure they won't.. keep staying with ur bf and his fam!!
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  • WhyAmlStillHere86 ΝΤΑ You're 18, you're not longer a minor. Even if they tell the police your exact location, the most the police will do is ask if you left willingly
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  • DeepLookLeyla been there, yo. people don't realize how much the "little things" build up over time. you don't have to accept the bare minimum just 'cause it's coming from family. you deserve effort, too.
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  • MeFolly ⚫ Be sure to get your important documents out of that house: birth certificate, social security card (or country equivalent), car registration and title, diploma.
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  • maskedcloak Ugh. I hate these Labubu things. My BF has one and thank god it's only one. I'm so tired of all these manufactured consumerist fads. Anyway. NTA.
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  • So, you're 18, so they can't exactly report you as a runaway because you're a legal adult. They can theoretically report you as missing, but the fact of the matter is that because they know exactly where you are and have contact with you, they'd have to lie to the police about everything, and even if they chose to
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  • do that, you can contact the police station after they do this and let them know what the truth is - you're not missing, you're staying with your boyfriend, your parents are in contact with you and know where you are. I don't know if they would be
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  • in trouble with the law for filing a false police report, but that *might* be a legal issue for them (it would be a small one but I think that filing a false police report is technically against the law). Likewise, though they've threatened to contact your
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  • college, what are they going to tell them? Don't let her in because a legal adult chose to go stay somewhere else of her own volition? Again, same thing applies, too - if your parents do call your college, you can also contact the admissions office and explain the situation. I
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  • highly doubt that this would have any bearing on the admissions process, especially if you've already been admitted. If all your ducks are in a row to start college - you've been admitted formally, you have a housing assignment if you're living in campus housing, and your financial
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  • aid package is approved - there's almost certainly nothing they can do, and again, I'd call the admissions department regardless and inform them of the situation. The only wrinkle with the college thing would be if your parents co-signed your loans. I don't think they could interfere with that process at this point if the loans have been approved, but yeah.
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  • One thing of import here, keep your bf's parents in the loop about everything what's going on, what your parents are threatening, that kind of stuff. Make sure you're in the clear to continue staying with them if possible and make sure you will have their support depending on how this plays out.
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