‘I’m entitled to the money you make’: 64-year-old father steals $300 from 16-year-old daughter’s emergency cash on top of demanding she pay rent, she quits job in retaliation

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Molly Vincent
Aug 12, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Money will never cease to be a point of contention between people. Whether it's you and your mother, your father, a friend, a partner, or a random cashier who just wants his minimum wage paycheck at the end of the month, money is a staple divider, and a staple necessity. Though it adds immense value to our lives when we have it, it can be the most destructive aspect of our lives if we don't. "Money, it's a gas," as sung by the indelible psychedelic band Pink Floyd in their 1973 hit song, "Money." I try never to mix money and friendships, unless it's spotting a friend for a drink or two while we're out. 

I've definitely had my fair share of cheap friends that trigger ill feelings towards finances. It's always the richer friends who tend to be the greediest, but that's just my personal experience. I once had a friend who was so cheap with money. It was my birthday party, a friend came over to cook for everyone and used her bag of rice, and she had the audacity to ask me to pay her back the $2 on my own birthday!

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    AITAH for threatening to quit my job if my dad continues what he’s doing?

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    For some background, I (16F)have lived with my dad (64M) for about a year now. My parents are divorced and I am not close with
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  • A 16-year-old part-time worker is off to college a couple years early, but her father may hold her back from her future. The story below contains all the details. 

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    my mother. I'm going into my senior year (I'm graduating a year early) and start school again in a week or so.
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    Last year in November, I began working at a restaurant as a hostess to save up for a car. I take the bus to and from school, as well as to work, and a car would
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    save me a lot of time. I make minimum wage, and I pull in a little over 1,000 dollars a month after taxes. I put about 60-70% of
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    that into savings and spend the rest on various things like going out with friends or funko pops.
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    In February of this year, my dad told me since I was making so much money I needed to start contributing to the household. At
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    first this was fine. He asked that I pay for my phone bill and utilities. We rent from a family member so utilities are
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    discounted, and my phone bill isn't too expensive either. Both things are about $200. With this I was saving less so I still had
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    spending money, but still had set aside 4-500 dollars every month for the car.
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    In July he decided I needed to pay a portion of the rent. I tried to argue with him on that but he threatened to close my account
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    Broken piggy bank.
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    (which he can do because he opened it for me). I had to start giving him 500 dollars on top of the 200 a month, totaling 700 a
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    month. With the 300 I had left I saved 200 for the car and kept 100.
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    I was pretty fed up at this point, but it gets worse. I have some cash in a jar in my room, in case I go do something that you can't use a card for. I had about 300
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    dollars in the jar from several months. Last week I came home from work and the jar is empty. When I asked my dad he said that since I'm his daughter he's
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    Money.
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    entitled to the money I make. I was furious. I told him he had to give it back but he had already spent it on some Amazon purchases. Lucky me. He told me
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    he wanted 100 extra dollars a month because "I shouldn't have that much money just for me". So
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    after all this, I'm only pulling in 200 dollars a month, that's if I don't save any.
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    Last night I told my dad I was going to give my two weeks notice. I work hard and I'm exhausted, it isn't worth the few
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    hundred dollars I get. He was absolutely furious and said that I I owe it to him to contribute to the household. I go to work in a few
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    hours and I'm planning on letting them know I won't be continuing. So, AITAH?
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