Stepdad pushes 17-year-old stepson to accept him as his dad because he has been his father figure for 9 years and his late father was for merely 7 years: 'He said he deserves to be recognized instead of the ghost.'

When you're a kid, you're at the mercy of the adult s around you. While some kids have two healthy, rational parents at the helm of their families, others have to operate under a series of absurd rules that do nothing to prepare them for the future. A parent could hypothetically feed their kids nothing but Fruit Roll Ups and vitamins, demand that they walk 10 miles to school when they have two cars in the garage, and make them call them "My Liege" without anyone stopping them. There's a fine line between bad parenting and parenting that will make you lose custody, and while a lot of parents cross that line, there's often very little that can be done about it if the child is not in immediate physical danger. Often, the only person who can control a rogue parent is the other parent in the family, and some parents are wholly unwilling to do that.

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AITA for telling my stepfather I hope some guy says the same to his kid one day?

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The mom and stepdad in this story are no angels. The stepdad harasses his stepson into seeing him as “dad,” despite his stepson repeatedly telling him that he cannot replace his late father. The mom is no better, allowing her husband to say horrible things to her son without a peep of protest.
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