Friend gets mad because she is being used as a babysitter just so the dad can watch the World Cup at a bar away from his kids: ‘I told her I wasn't a replacement dad’.

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María Cetra • Writer
Jun 24, 2026 11:15 AM EDT

The World Cup has all of us in a chokehold, but that doesn't mean you can bail on your own children.

Football, soccer, whatever you call it, has always been important. But in the last few years, the World Cup has achieved an importance that surpasses geographical limits. It does not matter who you support, but the fact that you watch it. The importance is such that advertising spots have gone up by millions. This also means that a lot of people have become obsessed with it, taking time off work to watch the matches or, in this case, bailing on their children so you can watch it with friends at a local bar.

In this Reddit story, the main problem is not the friend who does not know how to set boundaries and avoid getting used to, or the mother who excuses her husband and defends him when he is doing something wrong. The real issue is the dad who prefers to abandon his children to go to a bar, is the dad who prefers that someone else take care of his own descendants, and the dad who has no remorse in putting his hobbies and pleasures above everybody else's. This is not about the hard-working women who are doing more than they can to take care of the little ones. Is the unapologetic man who decided to put himself above others, even his own children.

This story is not showing us a friend who takes advantage of her childless friend, because she doesn't. The user who wrote this rant offered to be the free babysitter so that her friend could have some free time. The problem is that instead of being a good thing, it transformed into the easy way out for a grown man who likes to avoid his responsibilities. It shows the entitlement and poor care this dad has for his household. And that is the real problem. 
 

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