Vegan 6-year-old angry at father for being a "meat eater" based on 46-year-old mother's influence, she gets his family involved to try and force him to be vegan despite them being divorced

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Sep 13, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Veganism isn't just a diet; it's nearly a religion for many people. How we got to a point in society where what someone eats is causing tumultuous uproar in marriages, friendships, and other relationships we don't know, but it's a fact. Aren't there wars and stuff going on? Or what about the financial crisis? But no, eating a cow every so often is more important to harp on that anything in the world right now. Easy to be the human spokesperson for animals – they can't speak up for themselves! Anyway, the story isn't about whether you or I resonate with veganism, it's about a divorced couple and their young daughter arguing about veganism. 

It just goes to show how strongly a child can be influenced by their parent, or some other adult. An innocent and nascent 6-year-old is now being indoctrinated to believe the most extreme things about animals and veganism, to the point where she turns on her own father for being a meat eater. Read the full story for all the details. 

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    AITAH for accusing my ex-wife of harming our 6 year old daughter by forcing a vegan diet on her?

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    This isn a throwaway as I don't want this linked to my main account. I (30M) have a daughter we will call Dyann with my ex-wife
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    (46F). We were only together for 3 years. I met my ex at 22 years old, we married when I was 24 and had Dyann, then at 25 we divorced.
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    Near the end of our relationship my ex turned vegan, which hurt our already rocky marriage as she immediately all the sudden wanted me, our daughter and
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    even my two dogs to become vegan (she found this 'amazing' vegan dog food that we tried once and the dogs had diarrhea
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    for about 12 hours after trying it for the first time). My daughter also, hated the vegan food, and my wife hated that I wouldnt
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    force her to eat it. I myself also hated the vegan food. My ex-wife married Dyann's step dad, and this is where I think the problems
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    started as my wife didn't really force our daughter to be vegan till step dad came along.
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    Our custody arrangement is Dyann comes to me on weekends, and goes to her moms during the week. For the past year
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    my ex-wife and her husband have had our daughter on a full vegan diet whenever shes over there and tries to get me to enforce the
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    diet but I haven't. Shes also been 'educating' our daughter on the terribleness of the meat and diary industry.
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    The result is a daughter that I think is not getting the proper nutrients as shes always groggy, shes been less energetic, shes
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    very irritable, and seems to always be tired. That enough is a concern, but she also cries everytime she comes over and sees my dogs chase a squirrel
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    because its hurting animals, cries if the clothes I have here might have wool in them because it hurts to sleep, she cries when she
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    sees honey in my cabinet cause it took abusing bees for that, cries if anything involves eggs or milk because were stealing from cows
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    and chickens. She constantly talks about the poor cows and chickens are hurt in farms. My daughter was never like this before. Shes been so sad lately,
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    won't even colour with godamn crayons cause it 'took hurting animals to get those' and it breaks my heart. I own 11 hens,
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    Dyann used to love helping with these hens like collecting their eggs and named all of them. But now, she cries and begs me not to hurt chickens and stop stealing
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    their babies. I don't use my chickens for meat, only eggs, and I don't have rooster yet to fertilze the eggs. Yet my ex-wife seems to have her convinced I am a
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    horrible animal and my chickens are suffering everyday. I take good care of those chickens for anyone wondering.
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    All this stuff didn't happen over night, its been more gradual and has gotttsn exetreme lately.
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    Plate of vegetables for a vegan
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    My daughter used to be such a happy girl and healthy girl but now I feel her health has gone down and her shes seems so sad
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    all the time. I didn't quite know what to do, and I still don't but I decided to chat with my ex-wife about around a week or two ago.
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    When I showed up at her house on Friday to grab Dyann and take her to my house I asked to talk. The conversation went something
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    like I asked her about what she teaches Dyann about veganism, my ex-wife said she explained to Dyann how bad hurting animals is and all the things that go on
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    inside farms, I asked her if shes telling Dyann I am an animal ab er and said basically "if she comes to the natural conclusion based on the truth" and then I
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    asked if hers been monitoring our daughters health and she said it isn't my concern and the diet is healthy. It is totally my concern.
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    And from there I got angry and it turned into an argument where during I said my wife was nig Dyann by forcing this diet on her.
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    My ex-wife did not like this and she started screaming at me, and in a moment I am not proud of I screamed back. Luckily Dyann was
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  • I tried being vegan in high school briefly. I lost weight I didn't need to lose, and I felt really enervated all the time. After 6 months or so, I decided to eat meat again and boy, was it great. I broke my veganism with a double double from In n Out Burger – delicious!

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    still inside the house getting ready to go. The argument stopped when she came outside and I left.
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    My wife has now involved my family who I am low contact with (long history there, I dated a guy in my teens. They didn't like that,
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    divorced my wife and they also didn't like that), and now my family is telling me not to be so cruel to the mother of my child. I
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    Vegan food
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    do not feel I was cruel. I feel I was honest. My daughter literally seems depr sed. I am not proud for yelling at my ex-wife but I also feel I was justified in my anger at
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    her. I don't care what my wife does, I care how it affects Dyann. I don't have many people to talk to and I am feeling a bit guilty after
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    all of that. I shouldn't have screamed and I have never really addressed this stuff properly with Dyann. AITAH?
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