family drama

‘They offered to buy the turkey’: Man with 14 children tries to manipulate his ex-wife into hosting Christmas, but she refuses, hoping to spare her 9 and 11-year-old the heartache of meeting their father's love children

Jesse Kessenheimer

Grown daughter blocks her mom on a tracking app after surprise visits and nonstop monitoring that crosses from caring into control: ‘She drove 90 minutes and surprised me because she saw my dot at home’

Etai Eshet

Sibling changes the lock to their house after parents give a key to 34-year-old unemployed brother, refusing to let him stay: ‘Then I gave him our parents' key'

Bar Mor Hazut

34-year-old dad forbids ex-wife from putting a tracker on their 10-year-old son while he travels out of the country with him: 'I think she wants to be able to track me.'

Emmy Pratt

'I'm just glad she is safe': Loving cat dad astounded to realize wife left the cat out for four days while they're out of town, his cat-sitting parents didn't even bother looking for her

Ayala Sorotsky

Low-income sister opens a fundraiser for her sick dog, wealthy sister suddenly finds a kitten she allegedly can't afford and opens a rival fundraiser: ‘I asked her to share my fundraiser and she never did’

Ayala Sorotsky

Mom demands healthcare worker sister-in-law drives 6-year-old daughter to school, gets upset when she refuses: 'She knows I work irregular shifts'

Ally Perry

'She cannot be trusted': Wary daughter refuses to give her baby's birth certificate to her mother so she can open a bank account for him, suspects an attempt at fraud

Ely Bulnes

‘Actions are loud’: Parents of tantrum-throwing iPad-kid toddler kick sister and her husband out during a family trip, refusing to reimburse them for nearly $10k

Lana DeGaetano

‘I'm cancelling the vacation’: Dad refuses to take his wife's ex's kids on family vacation to Disneyland, wife insists they join, even though they are not her kids

Bar Mor Hazut

Mother-in-law reorganizes daughter-in-law's kitchen during 1-month visit: 'My husband doesn't think it's that big of a deal'

Remy Millisky

17 y/o son refuses to be a part of his estranged father's new family after losing his mother: ‘I was forced to be [in the family] against my will’

Lana DeGaetano

Deadbeat mom insults 16-year-old son for saying his 14-year-old sister is his only sibling, despite his 3 half-siblings: 'I told her my sister is the one who counts, not her other kids.'

Emmy Pratt

Single mom forces homeschooled 14-year-old sister to watch her 1-year-old baby all day every day, only pays her $40 for 2 weeks of babysitting: 'I have to do school during the night.'

Emmy Pratt

Decent earner creates a fake bank account to ward off mooching family members, his wife accidentally spills the beans to them years later: ‘They'd come to me like an ATM machine’

Lana DeGaetano

'Mom decided I needed a 'wake up call'': Wannabe grandma secretly signs up her 30-year-old daughter for a "Parental Awareness Retreat" in an attempt to make her want kids of her own, ends up alienating her instead

Jesse Kessenheimer