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Employee with 4-year-old daughter is only parent on team, boss protests when he can't attend mandatory Saturday meetings because of childcare: 'That's a you problem'

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Mom finds an undeposited check for $500 addressed to her daughter, sobs and berates her daughter for not giving her the money: 'She said she could have used that $500 if I didn’t want it.'

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Mom takes out a credit card in her daughter's name, refuses to pay the $500 balance she racked up that was due September 1st: 'She wanted to build a payment history.'

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Affluent parents pressure 17-year-old daughter to take out $400K in student loan debt to get her undergraduate degree: 'I love my dream school, but I love my future more.'

We have to be very careful differentiating between a lack of discipline and simply not liking a sport Parents sometimes want something for their kid and forget to ask them if they want it. That’s what I assume it’s happening to the father in this story. His daughter doesn’t strike me as volatile; she plays sports, she achieves relative success, I think she might not like it as much, and that’s about it.

Father refuses to support his daughter’s ever-changing hobbies: ‘I just can’t keep giving in and pouring into different things that she won’t stick with. I have 2 other daughters that it’s also taking away from’

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24-year-old daughter declines to pay the $6000 necessary to save her parents’ family home after they still owe her $500 from a previous loan, instead she asks her siblings to step in and help out: 'I have $2,000 in my checking account'

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Friends tell 26-year-old who has never had a job and lives at home with his low-income parents that it's morally wrong for him not to seek employment: 'I have anxiety.'

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Mom asks 15-year-old's fast food manager if she can clock out 20 minutes after her shift ends, teen gets massively upset: 'Your 15 year old should be clocking out on time'

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Are we policing what people do with their free time now? Should extremely tired moms make even their free time productive? I’m going to preface this piece by saying I don’t agree with either the husband or the commentators in this post. I thought my point of view would be the most obvious,

Man dismisses his wife’s feelings as social-media influence: ‘If I ever try to bring up something to him that might be bothering me, he will often question whether I actually feel that way or if I found it on TikTok’

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Back-to-school routine ends in panic after dad leaves 7-year-old son home alone for 3 hours, then blames his wife for not reminding him about drop-off: 'Dad just left me!'

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Dad refuses to go on a family vacation unless his 16-year-old nephew's friend gets disinvited because he picks on his 15-year-old daughter at school: 'This kid is a full-fledged nightmare.'

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Parents spend $30k of daughter's tuition money on kitchen renovation after she takes a year off from school: 'She thought we were bluffing'

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40-year-old questions his 28-year-old brother's parenting, so he comes back saying that his teen kids are extremely disrespectful and seem to have no boundaries: 'My brother said: "Oh, so you think my parenting is awful." I straight up said yes'

This father and his wife can afford to fund their daughter's college education thanks to a $3 million inheritance. However, the father will only pay for her chosen private-school tuition if she chooses to major in theater, art, or any other creative subject with “uncertain” employment.

Dad refuses to pay for daughter's college tuition if she chooses an arts degree, despite being able to easily thanks to a $3 million inheritance, daughter and wife disagree: 'She absolutely hated this'

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Stressed-out mom works at the office on Fridays, even though she used to be able to work from home on Fridays.

Fully remote childless boss demands hybrid employee RTO full-time, despite having a child she needs to pick up from school early: 'That’s your problem to figure out. Your child doesn’t work for the company, you do.'

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Mom Demands $1K per Month From Her High-Earning Son To Keep up Her Luxurious Lifestyle, He Refuses