She Told Her Father He Needed To Stop Having So Many Kids Because She Always Gets Stuck Being The Babysitter
This young woman is twenty years old and comes from a pretty sizable family. In fact, she has four full siblings and two half-siblings.
And even though she loves them all, she and her older sister, Vel, are always expected to be the babysitters. Plus, now that she travels pretty often for her own job, a lot of the work has fallen to Vel– who is already raising her own three-year-old child.
It’s not like her father is not able to be home, either. He is actually his own boss and has the ability to make his own hours– but he still never makes an effort to be home to care for his kids.
Moreover, he does not really help out her stepmother, who has been battling depression and going through a custody battle with her ex for the past two years.
“We are happy to help her [stepmother] because she genuinely is struggling. And she is trying her best, but he’s just not trying,” she said.
Instead, whenever her father is home, he reportedly spends all of his time doing the “devil’s tango” with her stepmother rather than pitching in with home upkeep or childcare.
So anyway, after her father recently told them that his wife was pregnant again, they were far from thrilled.
In fact, she finally spoke up and told her father that he needed to stop having children altogether if he was not going to be present at home.
“I said that another sibling just means more babysitting for us and that it is not fair on us. If he wants a lot of kids, he needs to be at home a lot more than he is and needs to put his children first,” she recalled.
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However, her father did not take the honest feedback well. Instead, he first brought up how he works to provide for the family and then had the nerve to call her selfish for not wanting to help out the family.
This really got under her skin, rightfully so, and pushed her to fully lose her temper. And in the process, she totally called her dad out.
“I said that he was the selfish one for having so many kids and expecting his eldest to just babysit despite us both having kids ourselves,” she explained.
And after that, her father even tried to say that she and Vel “choose” to care for the children. But she shut that down, too.
Instead, she clarified that she and Vel are basically forced to care for everything and everyone because if they did not, the kids would all end up neglected.
Finally, she also told her father that he needed to “man up” and act like the father everyone had been missing from their household.
Still, he just continued defending his actions and claiming that he was doing his best. Then, he actually accused her of being an ungrateful jerk and even told her to start looking for a new place to live since he was sick of her attitude.
So now, she is totally confused about what to do at home. Moreover, she is questioning if telling her father to stop having children was the wrong way to go about this situation.
Do you think she had a right to stand up to her father or not? If you were in her shoes, how would you feel? What could she possibly do to get herself and her siblings out of this situation?
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