Parents That Disowned Their Children Share What Happened

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Oct 26, 2019 4:00 PM EDT

Someone on AskReddit asked for parents to share their harrowing experiences with what drove them to disown their children. The resulting stories are pretty dang heartbreaking. Proceed at your own risk. 

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    Text - badjuju824 18h My parents disowned my oldest sister. She always struggled growing up more than us (she became a teen mom with a bad older dude, partied a lot, etc), but my parents helped her a lot. They do okay for themselves, but had a no-co- signing rule for all six of my siblings and I. Still, they co-signed for her house so she could get a head start. She didn't pay the mortgage for almost 3 years before my mom got served in front of all the other nurses at her work. My parents worked
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    Text - She awkwardly joined us for Christmas, and punched my brother in the face during the meal for "humiliating" her oldest son by asking him if he wanted to work at my brother's company for good pay. Her oldest son is in and out of jail, and my brother was trying to help him after his release, but her son said he didn't want a job and got mad. She then called the cops and told them the same brother had illegal guns in his truck, and they came on Christmas night and searched his truck (no guns
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    Text - sonoran22 19h she started stealing from us as a kid, then it moved up to forged checks, stole her sisters Christmas gifts. Then there were the multiple arrests, conversion, theft, assault, drugs. The final straw was when she dumped her kid and left town to fool with a married man for several years. Kid is 11, he has had a long haul. Everything she say is just a bunch of lies and more lies. And Yes she has had counselling numerous times. It hurts but it is more peaceful, did I mention the
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    Text - FessJaulkner 18h My father said my mother's issue was she had too many children and it gave her some kind of brain fever, much like a dog that loses it's mind after having too many puppies. My mother said my father felt trapped by me. He was planning to leave when it was just my two older brother and then my mother got pregnant with me and he felt obligated to stay. Now that I'm am adult with two kids myself, I think I realized that both of my parents are are just extremely mentally ill a
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    Text - icedlottie 17h My mother and her sister were both adopted into a great family. Recently, my Grandfather fell ll and we were told to prepare to say goodbye. So the family gathered. My Grandmother has had a hard time with her memory since she had a brain hemorrhage, but she welcomed my aunt into her home during this tough time. Whilst my Grandfather was in his final week, Wendy (aunt) took my Grandmother's atm card and proceeded to spend well over a thousand dollars on herse lf and get hers
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    Text - I'm pretty sure one of my uncles also threatened Wendy to make sure she stayed away from my Grandmother from now on too. Reply 14.5k
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    Text - NiceSasquatch 21h since it seems to have widened a bit, a family torn apart. Based on an aunt and her niece. Aunt starts signs of dementia at a relatively young age, is moved into an assisted living home. Niece (who bounces around jobs) gets hirex to go visit her about once a week, take her out to the mall or a walk in the park, whatever. Paid handsomely. We get an alert that aunt has a check bounce from her account that should have $5k in it. Niece has drained the account. Proven beyond
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    Text - HeidiU521 17h My siblings and I have stopped interacting with my oldest brother. We found out that years earlier he had molested at least two boys. He was an adult at the time. He showed no remorse, and turned the story around to say that those boys were at fault. It was so disgusting to watch someone you grew up with treat people so poorly and show such a blatant disregard for others. The good news is that the remaining four siblings have become closer and we now are able to appreciate t
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    Text - The_Loudest_Fart 17h My parents didn't "disown" me... I was just a weird mistake. My mother never wanted a child. She bailed after a few months. My father was a single parent and ended up in prison (life without parole) when I was 14. I finally met my mother. She was a police detective by the time I moved in with her. She threw me out after two months. I am 30 now, and life is typically a little weird around the holidays, but I always get a good laugh when I tell people that my father is
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    Text - pickmeacoolname 17h A little different, I was disowned, but I deserved it. I was an addict and a mess for a long time, my mom couldn't keep bailing me out of trouble and watch me self destruct anymore. I wasn't living at home, she came to see me one last time to tell me she was done, not to contact her, she would no longer have anything to do with me. She was in pieces, I can't imagine how hard it must have been for her. But it was the best thing she ever did for me, once she cut me off m
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    Text - Mizzscarlett2ptO 20h As Jehovahs witnesses, my parents disowned my siblings and I several times since I was in my late teens. One of the JW "rules" is that you do not associate with others who know "the truth" but refuse to follow it, including family and Parents are encouraged to disown any children who have left the religion. The first time was when i was 19. It upset me, i was heartbroken and eventually they changed their minds only to do it again a couple years later and so on until i
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    Text - jcpmojo 22h I've disowned one of my siblings (still have 5 other siblings). My sister is just a horrible person She's the youngest of the seven, and she's been rotten since she was a teenager. She is much younger than the rest of us, so while the other 6 grew up together, she was almost like an only child. She treats everybody in her life like they're here to serve her needs. Some of the things she's put our mother through are truly horrible. I wouldn't give a shit if she disappeared fore
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    Text - jadepalmtree 21h I am not sure if this counts. I didn't disown him, but I went through a dissociative episode after some really intense trauma, and I honestly couldn't feel any attachment and parental love that I had for my son. I tried not to show it, and behave as normally as possible because he was a child at the time and couldn't possibly understand what I was going through. It was pretty disturbing to not be able to feel any sense of bond with him. I eventually got better, but I defi
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    Text - Steph83 16h Do adopted kids count? We adopted a 3 year old from foster care. Cutest, sweetest kid. He had a few issues, but we mostly figured it was because of his history. The issues escalated quickly. When he was 7 he hit our dog with a golf club. We had to keep him away from our dog and our cat. The cat disappeared - we assumed she got out and ran away. Found out years later that he killed it and threw it in the woods. The last straw was when he burned our home down. We sent him to a r
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  • 15
    Text - willmaster123 16h I went out with a woman who had a 22 year old son that she disowned forever. She didn't like to talk about him at first, but one day she just told me that she caught him molesting his 8 year old cousin when he was 20 years old. While the rest of the family was having dinner downstairs, including the 8 year olds mother. I didn't ask anything more than that.
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