Parenting Fail

‘Feral Child Summer’ is the Millennial Parenting Antidote to iPad Babies

JR Atkinson

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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‘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

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'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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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