Parenting Fail

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

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

Mother requires in-laws to ‘book an appointment’ with their 4-month-old grandkid after they frequently show up during naps and meals unannounced: ‘I’m just asking for basic respect’

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

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

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

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

‘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

'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

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Emmy Pratt

21-year-old gets full custody of her 6-month-old sister after parents abandon her, parents come back 3 years later demanding her back: 'My parents did the same with me, giving me to my grandmother till I was 5'

Emmy Pratt

27-year-old daughter starts charging her live-in stepdad $400 rent after he tries to dictate what she wears and who can visit her home: ‘He can't tell me what to do in my house’

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

25-year-old woman hides her 7-month-old baby from her boyfriend, sobs and bangs down his neighbor's doors after he breaks up with her: 'We had been seeing each other for a few weeks and I had no idea she had a baby'

Emmy Pratt

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