17-year-old gets forced out of the house by his parents for telling his 15-year-old sister that she is their favorite child: 'Sometimes they just let my sister choose what we should do for my birthday'

Siblings often complain about one sibling being the favorite over the other, perceiving different levels of attention, support, and offerings their siblings are getting as slights rather than happenstance. This can be difficult for even the most well-intended parents to balance to avoid having one kid feeling like the other is "the favorite." No matter how they try to balance things, the differing circumstances of their kids' ages, the opportunities they get, and the timing of them, and the resources available to the family at the time will always mean that there are differences in each kid's experience.

Of course, especially in the emotional stages of childhood, things can feel pretty unfair when you're comparing yourself to siblings. There's always going to be something that feels unfair or sparks disagreement and rivalry between them. There might be some truth behind some coincidental examples of one sibling receiving more opportunities than the other, but the reality is that you and your siblings are looking at the same scene, the same story, from different angles and through different lenses.

All that being said, in this instance, it sounds like there might actually be some serious favoritism going on in this family. In his account of events, the 17-year-old tells about how his parents would frequently pull his sister out of school just to spend time with her when they would never do the same with him. They would even let her pick where they were going for dinner when it was his birthday. When he called her out for this and her other entitled behavior, it brought everything to a head, and his parents, of course, sided with his sister and made him go stay with his grandparents.

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