Parenting Fail

17-year-old daughter retrieves late mother's belongings from the garbage after her stepmom tosses them out, father takes stepmom's side: ‘I'm not giving them back’

Lana DeGaetano

'You're asking for trouble': Dad buys milkshake for 10-year-old after dentist visit, mom claims it's 'unfair' to their 7 and 8-year-old kids

JR Atkinson

Stepmother threatens to rescind college fund after 17-year-old refuses to share a room with his 8-year-old stepbrother during Christmas vacation: 'My stepmother told me if I didn't apologize I could forget my dad helping me pay for college'

Brad Dickson

Entitled father expects daughter to support her 3 distant step-siblings when he passes, daughter refuses to take on caretaking role: ‘I'd lose the ability to support myself’

Lana DeGaetano

Father refuses to force his 5-year-old and 9-year-old kids to accept his mother's unpleasant, unreliable boyfriend: ‘That wasn't up for discussion’

Lana DeGaetano

Update: 27-year-old daughter charges her live-in stepdad $400 rent and gives him 8:30 PM curfew after he tries to control her and her household: ‘It was final’

Lana DeGaetano

Mom takes daughter home after the 9-year-old is singled out and made to bowl against grown adult man at kid's birthday party: ‘Her friends asked her why she was leaving and she said she didn’t want to bowl with the male stranger’

Brad Dickson

'She pushed it too far': Mother-in-law criticizes daughter-in-law for going to the gym while pregnant, pregnant daughter snaps at her

JR Atkinson

17-year-old leaves to stay with grandparents after parents announce pregnancy with 7th child, parents threaten to sue them: ' They're threatening to sue them now'

Brad Dickson

‘He wasn't my dad... He was Greg’: 17-year-old son refuses to consider his stepdad a father figure after he falsely brags about being ‘the dad that stepped up’

Lana DeGaetano

22-year-old daughter refuses to acknowledge her 6-year-old half-sister because she's the product of her father's infidelity: ‘I don't want to be the bigger person’

Lana DeGaetano

17-year-old moves in with his grandparents after his neglectful parents who constantly make him babysit announce they're having a 7th kid: 'My parents are angry because they don't have help'

Emmy Pratt

Dad demands $40k of 19-year-old's inheritance and savings after abandoning him as a child: 'I haven't lived with my father in 5 years'

Brad Dickson

Husband and wife ‘leak’ fake baby names online to prank their prying family members, family does not have a laugh: ‘They said it was childish’

Lana DeGaetano

'It seems like everyone but you is responsible': Dad accuses friend's kids of stealing his 8-year-old's toy, blames wife for not putting it away

JR Atkinson

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Emmy Pratt