Parenting Fail

30-year-old stepmom refuses to adopt her 12-year-old stepdaughter because she doesn't think they're close enough: 'Her mom passed when she was 2! This woman is the only mother she's got.

Emmy Pratt

28-year-old freeloader brother expects successful sibling to let him live rent-free in their apartment while they're abroad, then gets their parents to pressure them, too: ‘He acts like it's already decided’

Lana DeGaetano

19-year-old refuses to be the English translator for her parents after her 22-year-old brother also learns English: 'I've been forced to do it since I was 11'

Emmy Pratt

Adult grandchild cooks Thanksgiving meal for their grandmother after other family members claim they can't make it to dinner, then family drops in day-of to dine and dash: ‘My grandmother and I barely had anything left for a full meal’

Lana DeGaetano

21-year-old daughter refuses to sign on as a potential legal guardian to her estranged dad's new 4-year-old stepchild: ‘My life is separate from them... I have no wish for anything closer’

Lana DeGaetano

‘I felt like collateral damage in their attempts to cut my mom out’: Paternal family cuts contact with woman and her mother following a divorce, so the woman tells her cousins the truth about how they treated her over 8 years later

Lana DeGaetano

Divorced dad pays off family home in place of child support and leaves his 21-year-old kid half of the house, her mother demands she surrender her half so she has full ownership: ‘I would be kicked out immediately’

Lana DeGaetano

25-year-old freeloader tells 52-year-old mom who pays her bills that she won't take care of her when she gets old: 'You shouldn't expect me to do that. I didn't ask to be born'

Emmy Pratt

‘It's as if they think that they are entitled to using our apartment as a motel’: Ungrateful family of 3 actively attempts to squat in 16-year-old's family's ‘tiny’ apartment before they go on vacation

Lana DeGaetano

'Let's just put on some Peppa Pig!': Rebellious moms confess which "parenting rules" they ended up breaking once they finally got a real taste of motherhood

Ely Bulnes

High strung mom asks tutor to teach her 3-year-old son math for 4 hours a week: 'How long does it usually take for him to get better?'

Emmy Pratt

18-year-old college student wants to move out of her parents' home after being forced to care for her 3 younger siblings for all her teenaged years: 'I don’t want to go through that again'

Brad Dickson

Parents reject 20-year-old daughter's plea to adopt a cat, but then allow her 17-year-old sister to keep one instead: ‘I've been wanting [one] for years’

Lana DeGaetano

29-year-old pays financially struggling parents' mortgage for over four years, then rightfully demands his name be put on the house for legal comfort: ‘My mom accused me of trying to steal the house’

Lana DeGaetano

‘I became livid’: Woman refuses to share inheritance with her ‘bonus daughter’, who insists that the money belongs to her father through marriage

Lana DeGaetano

Man secretly DNA tests brother's child and accidentally exposes a family secret: 'I bought a DNA test kit and swabbed Leo while I was babysitting'

JR Atkinson