teenagers

Parent of 15-year-old refuses to buy her cell phone, offers her pay-phone quarters instead: 'She says it's affecting her social life'

Remy Millisky

23-year-old niece tries to help homeschooled 13-year-old cousin who can't do his times tables, enrages aunt who thinks her teaching is just fine: 'Charlie needs to learn to be accountable to someone besides his mommy'

Emmy Pratt

Stepmom refuses to back up dad after he punished his 15-year-old daughter for being mean to a classmate, dad tells stepmom to leave the house: ‘You're choosing her over me’

Bar Mor Hazut

13-year-old throws a tantrum when her 18-year-old stepsister forgot to bring her a snack when she picked her up from track practice: 'She said her mom always brought a snack for her and pouted'

Emmy Pratt

Mom refuses to let 18-year-old son move in homeless 17-year-old girlfriend, lashes out when uncle houses them both: 'My nephew was willing to step up'

Ally Perry

14-year-old forced to babysit 33-year-old sister's baby 24/7, finally has enough: 'I have zero experience with babies!'

Ben Weiss

Dad punishes 13-year-old daughter for calling her classmate "poor" by making her go to school with extremely bad hygiene for 3 days: 'No shower, no deodorant, no brushing of teeth, and reused clothes'

Emmy Pratt

33-year-old mom forces her 14-year-old insomniac sister to watch her 3-month-old baby at home alone while she works all day: 'Both my parents work, so I’m left alone with the baby for hours almost every day.'

Emmy Pratt

Dad forbids his 14-year-old daughter from reading dystopian novel, scolds his 20-year-old niece for having it in her bedroom: 'He said it was careless to leave something she is too young for out on the shelf'

Emmy Pratt

16-year-old gets chastised for not helping her dad's new girlfriend, who is pregnant, after the woman was unkind to her: 'She's extra bitter that dad's so focused on making our relationship work instead of on her'

Brad Dickson

19-year-old Bella takes her 23-year-old cousin’s graduation party gift cards and cash mid-celebration because she needs them more: I told her to drop everything she collected right there and stop it’

Etai Eshet

Adopted child learns that their birth mother has left them a large sum of inheritance money, adopted siblings demand an equal cut despite having no relation: 'They want to split it three ways!'

Brad Dickson

18-year-old asks his 41-year-old neighbor out on a date 2 times, neighbor tattles on him to his mom much to his chagrin: 'When he saw me, he looked enraged'

Emmy Pratt

“You’re not allowed to ground my son”: Stepmom grounds 17-year-old stepson for disrespecting her, husband intervenes and ungrounds him, causing marital crisis

Briana Viser

Stepmom tries to ground her 17-year-old stepson, gives dad the cold shoulder after he forbids her from discipling his son: 'This is my last summer with my oldest child'

Emmy Pratt

19-year-old son expects dad's girlfriend to pay for his vacation after treating her and her 15-year-old daughter with hostility for the 3 years his dad has been with her: 'You’re not my family. You never will be. [D]on’t expect anything from me'

Brad Dickson