Parenting Fail

25-year-old germaphobe dreaming of motherhood thinks she'll be able to train her future children not to be dirty and gross: 'She thinks if we just work at it, we have a spotless house and a spotless kid.'

Emmy Pratt

'I had zero remorse': Mother treats her daughter to Korean BBQ because they both share a love for Asian cuisine, but her husband insists the rest of the family attend and tries to ruin their dining experience

Lana DeGaetano

Entitled family expects pregnant woman to sacrifice half of her $50k house deposit to buy her sister an apartment, she refuses: ‘We wouldn’t be able to buy our house as the mortgage repayments would be too expensive’

Lana DeGaetano

Parents force older siblings to pay for 20-year-old sister's flight to Disney, she refuses to go out of solidarity for siblings: 'My parents are extremely wealthy doctors who own their own business. None of us kids are financially comfortable.'

JR Atkinson

Update: 16-year-old discovers that her father has taken $300 cash from savings jar on top of the rising rent that he has been charging her, her boss agrees to help her: 'He said that since I’m his daughter, he’s entitled to the money I make'

Brad Dickson

Parents demand that 22-year-old daughter pay over $1,000 in rent and utilities in their apartment abroad while 26-year-old golden child brother lives rent free, they lash out when she threatens to move: 'They called me ungrateful'

Ely Bulnes

31-year-old divorced mom of a 9 and 11-year-old refuses to meet with ex-husbands 2nd wife who wants to usurp her as the mother figure in her children's lives: 'They told me to get used to hearing her called mom because they would not stop it.'

Emmy Pratt

Father buys son a luxury car for his 16th birthday, then his ex-wife scolds him for refusing to financially contribute to her new family: ‘Why would I be the one to buy them a car?’

Lana DeGaetano

'Please don't put your toes in my spaghetti': A Glorious Thread of Anecdotes from Tired Toddler Moms That Perfectly Sum Up the Terrible Twos

Ely Bulnes

14-year-old destroys neighbor's flower pots, mom makes him clean and replant everything to take accountability, but dad accuses her of going too far: ‘Making him do physical work was too embarassing’

Ely Bulnes

17-year-old forced to babysit stepmother's kids for 6 hours on his day off, he leaves the house instead, forcing the stepmother to cancel her plans: 'She was trying to guilt-trip me about canceling'

Brad Dickson

28-year-old son refuses to take on $250k debt from his parents’ two unstable family businesses, but might end up to selling their family home to make ends meet: ‘If I co-sign for this debt, I'm legally responsible for it’

Lana DeGaetano

34-year-old mom forbids 13-year-old daughter from cutting her waist-length blonde hair to impress her 14-year-old crush: 'She called me an overbearing mom'

Emmy Pratt

Single mom allows her kids to skip their uncle's celebration of life because their father's new girlfriend will be in attendance: ‘[My son] expresses that he does not want her there’

Lana DeGaetano

Parents pressure 32-year-old daughter to fix the rift between her 36-year-old estranged identical twin sisters: 'They said I'm the person who could bring them together'

Emmy Pratt

‘It is not my responsibility to fund someone else's child’: Self-supporting woman refuses to make monthly financial contributions to her brother and his pregnant wife, her mother ostracizes her as a result

Lana DeGaetano