16-year-old tells dad, who charges her $800 per month for rent, that he's a bad father: 'If I don't pay rent I get kicked out until I do.'

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  _{A model representing a teenage girl who works part-time at a fast food place in order to afford the rent to stay in her childhood home.} 

• The teenager in this story is clearly a good, hardworking kid, but her dad doesn't appreciate her at all.

  “My dad and I haven't exactly been as close as we used to be and here's why. I'm 16, and my dad charges me rent, the water bill, my phone bill, and the cost of my own groceries. This isn't exactly the problem I would say. It's that he says I'm a lazy daughter. Which...no...I'm not. I work 35 hours a week at a fast food place and I do extracurriculars during the summer for my future career. I am almost always ALWAYS busy or doing something. Very rarely do I go out with friends or have time to myself to do anything. And when I am home (which tends to be late at night or really early morning) I clean up the house to my best ability.”

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  _{A photo representing a teenage girl doing her families dishes in the early morning or the late night.} 

• "For context my rent comes out to being $480 monthly. Now add the water bill, phone bill,and groceries , it usually comes to around $800. As you can assume , I'm barely making it by. If I don't pay rent I get kicked out until I do. Recently me and my dad have been budding heads as I haven't been caught on on doing things like the trash or the dishes. The problem with the dishes is absolutely none of them are mine. They don't allow me to use the same dishes as them, and I can't ever eat what they cook. Excluding myself, there's 4 people in the household. That's A LOT of dishes . And they stack up because I'm not home alot and no one else does them. But I also just kind of been on the "If I don't use it I'm not doing it" because I just don't have the time. And with the garbage it's the same thing, none of its mine like at all. I throw all my garbage away in the bins outside on a basis. There's like 8-9 trash cans throughout the house and he expects me to make the time for and empty out."

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  _{A picture of a trash can overflowing, which happens when the whole family relies on one busy teenager to unload the trash for them.}

• "I understand that I'm still like 16 years old and do have chores. But it angers me because I genuinely don't have the time and he knows that. Last week I got off work at around 1 in the morning, since it's summer I'm allowed to do closing shifts so every night I've been closing. I was exhausted. I walked into the house in hopes that I could just peel off my work uniform and pass out in my bed. But my dad had other plans here. Before I could even make it to my room he came out of his room(he had waited up to talk to me). I was too tired to protest so he just led me to the living room and we sat down. He went on a long tangent about how I've been slacking off lately and how he's not going to "take my ********". After hearing him go on and on, I snapped. I told him that no reasonable father charges his daughter 480 dollars in order to stay under his roof. I told him that the way he handles things is pathetic and as a 16 year old I shouldn't be taking care of him.

  The resulted in a heated loud argument, waking up my entire household. My mom came out of their room, and then agreed with my dad. Which she always does but still. AITAH here? Did I go to far?"

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  _{A stock photo of an angry father confronting his teenage daughter after a long day at work for not pulling her weight in the household.}

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