Parenting FAILS

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

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

35-year-old roasts her boyfriend's 19-year-old son for complaining that his mom doesn't clean the house enough after she lost her mother and her husband

Emmy Pratt

Full-time student discovered her mother used Apple Pay to steal $4,200 of her tuition savings for rent and beauty appointments, leaving daughter unable to make a required school payment: 'Keeps saying she raised me and I owe her'

Emma Saven

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

JR Atkinson

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

17-year-old refuses to forgive dad for prioritizing his 2nd wife and her kids over him after he lost his mother when he was 13: 'I told him that he was too late'

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