According to a 2022 survey by the Pew Research Center, about one in four married or cohabiting parents feel judged by people they interact with on online groups, with 7% claiming they experience this always or very often.
And the subreddit 'Insane Parents' is probably responsible for a fair share of the pie. However, once you scroll through this internet community, it becomes hard to blame them.
There's no shortage of moms posting their anti-vaxxer rants on Facebook and overprotective dads who want to forbid their kids from dating for as long as they're alive. So someone has to call them out before they convince anyone that such behavior is acceptable, right?
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Dumped For Having Red Hair
Ha, I love it! Not to mention I love ginger hair, wtf are people still treating it like some witches trait?
Parents That Make Fun Of The Hobbies Of His Kids Are Trash
A problem that 'Insane Parents' members face is that they are sometimes accused of faking their posts.
One of the most fascinating aspects of the sub is that the stories told rely on screenshots (often text messages between parent and child).
This leads to a strange dynamic where posters not only have to "prove" their experiences, but their struggles are also gamified into small, digestible pieces, the most surprising of which get upvoted.
I'm 25, I Have Schizophrenia, And Have Zero Support From My Mom
Another Found In R/S**tmomgroupssay …
Dressing your baby in designer brands tells me you're most likely an idiot. Seriously...
I Think We Should Make Leashes Mandatory For Everyone Under 15!
Sometimes a leash is better than your suicidal toddler, running in front of cars, the moment you take your eyes off them to blink.
Speaking to VICE over Reddit messages, the moderators of 'Insane Parents' said the high number of screenshots is simply a consequence of the fact that a lot of communication now takes place via text
"As such, there is more opportunity to display insane parenthood with a screenshot," they explained. "It's the easiest thing to post."
I Synced My Calendar With My Mum And Forgot I Have My Birth Control Implant Replacement Date Marked 3 Years From Now. She Saw It And Texted Me This While I Was At Work. I’m 20
My Friend Hasn't Spoken To His Mother In Months. She Finds Out He's Living With His Girlfriend. He Also Shares Some Exciting News
On A Post About Another Parent Selling Her Kid's TV Because She "Can't Act Right"
Stop expecting children to know how to clean up their stuff. You have to TEACH AND GUIDE THEM. That’s your whole job.
My Parents Did Not Like Me Going Out To Get A Vaccine. Came Back To This
Despite a few negative messages from trolls and the occasional request to prove the screenshots weren't faked, many users think the subreddit is incredibly understanding, with most people helping to validate their feelings.
"Our sub is first and foremost a support sub," the moderators said.
They believe the community is a place where teenagers can come and "know that the abuse they've suffered is not a normal experience".
Who Goes To Disney World Just To Make Their Kid’s Life Miserable
Wtf Is Wrong With People
This Woman Constantly Photoshops Her Daughter’s Body To Look Like This. She’s E I G H T
My Father Tracking Me While I’m On A Date
Reminds of that episode from Hogan knows best when he tracked his daughter Brooke’s date
The good news is that when KidsHealth.org and TIME for Kids surveyed over 9,000 kids ages 8 to 14, 67% said they get along well, or pretty well, with their parents. And that's not all. 85% of them said they have fun with their parents, and 79% said they feel close to their parents.
(15f) Parents Took My Antidepressants Because I Slept Through My Alarms... I Don't Even Know What To Do Anymore
To stop taking antidepressants just like that has serious side effects, like making the persons try to kill themselves! Source: I'm a medical doctor, worked 5 years as a psychiatrist
My Mom's Response When I Came Out To Her. Haven’t Talked To Them For Two Weeks Now
I think I have to stop reading this soon, I'm growing more enraged by the second. 👿
I Took My Clothes Off While I Was In The Shower And After I Came Out, I Saw That My Father Had Went Into My Room And Taken A Picture Of My Panties And Sent It To My Mother Without My Consent. I'm 20. I Can Clean Up After Myself. I Did It Immediately As I Stepped Out Of The Shower. Wtf
My Mum Is Abusing Our Brand New Security System
I hope these 'parents' all rot in the worst nursing home when they're old, alone and forgotten
Furthermore, even if children get into an argument with a parent, it's not like they immediately mess up their relationship. Most kids — more than 60% — said they usually take a little time and eventually things go back to normal. Some kids said that they make up quickly (28% of younger kids and 18% of older kids.)
It’s great if you can forgive (and be forgiven) quickly and settle things within the family and without the need to search for support on the internet.
And Boomers Wonder Why Their Kids Don't Like Them
That's what they'll do when they turn 18 and never talk to you again.
Child Endangerment Is So Quirky
Wow. Endangering your own baby by not fastening the seat right and driving like a crazy aṣshole, then posting it. *slow clapping*
Parents Starve 6 Year Old To Death By Keeping Him Inside A Closet For A Month
This. Just... This
My Parents To A Tee
Probably same for when she sees a disabled, or gay person or a person of color.
Mom Just Asked Me For 600$ When I Work A Minimum Wage Job Then Tells Me To Stop Spending ???
She’s Literally Killing Her Son. This Page Is Full Of Insane Parents Thinking They Know More Than The Doctors
As a medical doctor I'd like to slap this bîtch silly. Then save the little boy's live.
Mother Impersonated Me To Bofa To Remove $1500 From My Account Of My Awarded Scholarship Money As Punishment For Her Ex Husband Not Paying For Her Vacation
Jesus Christ
That's right lady, make him keep all that hurt and anger bottled up for years and years until it all comes out explosively...
And this + guns is why we have school shootings
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Huh. ‘gnarled old dusty douchecanoe’ sounds accurate enough… just add ‘satanic rainbow half-an-non-existential-brain-cell-alert gnarled old dusty douchecanoe’ and then PERFECTION.
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What a terrible mother, I hope the kid has a responsible adult they can talk to.
Comments like this, make me glad I'm a high school teacher.
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Wtf is wrong with people. Honestly. More a statement than a question.
Some people are lucky enough to never having to deal with the real struggle of life, and hence they are truely ignorant of what monsters other people have to constantly deal with. My guess is that the mother was the bully herself, back when she was in school, and hence for her bullying was fun and games, as she did not have to pay the price for it. You often hear priviledged people give really crappy life advice, such as people living on minimum vage working two jobs to make ends meet should just start saving and investing. Life (or probably their parents) has given some quite atypical optionsm which means that they basically have no real life experience that grounds them, and that they can base their "logic" on.
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There are better ways to prepare your children for bullies that don't involve you becoming the worst bully
For those that don't know, brad williams is a dwarf/lil person and an awesomely funny comedian
abuse, i got bullied and told my parents, they watched a movie with me and we had icecream. that is what proper parenting is like, stop being afraid of what YOU made and own up to him, he deserves a good life and you need to go to therapy because you obliviously don't know how to respect other people. get some help.
When kids at school picked on me, my father didn't tell me "suck it up buttercup." He went to the school and hulked out in the Principal's office. I wish I had witnessed that. He can go from mild-mannered nerd to fire-breathing hellspawn that would scare the pants off Chuck Norris when the situation calls for it.
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I'm telling you that feeling of wanting to die never goes away when you're being bullied. The only thing that helps a bit, which still doesn't solve the problem but it can prevent another problem from happening, is having someone to talk to
Whenever you are bullied, remember it could be worse - you could be the bully.
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Horrendous. Autistic brains are very sensitive and prone to trauma. School can be so hard on autistic kids with the sensory and social demands, let alone bullying too. To live well and feel safe as an autistic person we need compassion and people who will support us and accommodate our needs. She can't even manage basic empathy. That poor child. I really hope this is a troll and not real.
Perhaps she is autistc too, and that is where he got it from. Her "people skills" must be completely lacking, since she can make herself write something like that, and having a hard time understanding people, and therefore have empathy with them, are often a "side effect" of autism.
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As sad as this sounds, I wouldn’t be surprised if her son has depression or plans to commit suicide.
As the mother of an adult autistic son (35), this one really hurts. She obviously knows NOTHING about autism if this is how she treats him. What a POS.
If it seems like he is "doing great," that's a sign that... something else could happen sooner or later.
So ur child suffers without his parents support and can't tell u anything and ur proud of urself... Ouch. Stop telling on urself
Oh this brings me back to the bad old days of being bullied and then being told by adults that the kids only kept bullying me because they saw me getting upset. And later when I'd managed to conceal my hurt, they told me it was because of how I behaved so I should have been something not me. The mental scars from bullying were easier to deal with than the ones from the victim blaming.
I used to get bullied to the point I thought of myself as no good. My mom let me cry and tell her about it, and taught me how to deal with it in an orderly fashion, I’m not bullied anymore. And the happiest I’ve ever been in my new school, no neglect or threatening involved. STOP👏🏻 DOING 👏🏻THIS!! ITS UTTERLY DISGUSTING and now this boy is probably suffering from depression and anxiety.
This abusive woman needs to be removed from the home and permanently barred from EVER having any access to her son. This child deserves a loving, safe, and nurturing family, even if it isn't his family of origin.
Good grief, I would wet my panties if she was to meet a guy, married him and then, the day after, finds out he's an abusive husband... Then having her kid tell her the exact same thing she told him once... I truly hope the kid's okay... If I wouldn't have defended my autistic son all those years ago when he was bullied at school, I wouldn't have a kid now that is the kindest soul and always steps up if he sees someone being bullied...
Can we un-cencor the names of most of these posters so they can be reported to CPS?
Some older kid was bullying my daughter in kindergarten. She was practically 1/2 his size. I got ignored, "boys will be boys" or "oh, he must like her". So I taught her some basic self defense moves. The next time he pulled her hair, she kicked him as hard as she could in the nuts. Kid dropped and started bawling. Meeting w/principal and his parents. The shool had never told them there was a problem. Dad is OBVS the problem. Starts getting in my face and I was like "where do you think she learned that move? It wasn't from Sesame Street". Pulling her pants down on the playground constitutes sexual harassment and I will be filing a police report and your son will be a registered sex offender. I say getting his nuts bruised was a small price to pay. He was moved to a different school the next day.
These posts are sick. These are not parents horrid vile creature's
There is no such thing as bullying. "Bullying" is just a made-up word to dress up the CRIMES of harassment, assault, battery, etc, when committed in the environment of a school by a minor, so that the responsible adults can say, "Oh, it's just bullying," and not report it to the police, as would be done if the same crimes were being committed by an adult. Need proof? Look up the 14-year-old who recently committed suicide in NJ because of "bullying". Look at the crimes the kids who attacked her were charged with.
as someone bullied through my whole education, trust me, he is NOT doing great. and he knows that not even his parents are on his side.
And you'll be that parent that he kills before he goes to the school to kill as many people as he can before taking his own life. You have the mothering skills of a dung beetle. Because lord knows you're just pushing💩,you definitely don't know what you're talking about when it comes to raising your son. I pray you don't have any firearms in your home.
I can see years of therapy for that poor child. That's child abuse! 🤬🤬
OMG this one really makes me mad. I have an autistic son who talks to me all the time. I'm pretty much the only person he has to talk to about his feelings and things going on in this life. I can't imagine this monster of a mother shutting her kid out like this. Most autistic kids I know do not have many friends, and I know my son really needs me to be there for him. I wish I knew this kid. I'd listen to him.
Holey sheet. There should be tests something. Legalized sterilization. That is nuts. Scarey
Holy s**t. Wtf did I just read? Her baby told her he wanted to die and she told him to do it???? My baby is 18 (also have a 21 yr old in college) and living in Louisiana at the moment. If he were to call me and tell me he wanted to die, I'd jump in my car and drive the 9 hours it takes to get there with zero thought to work or anything. How tf can you talk to your child this way???
There are more of these parents out there than you can imagine. Part of it comes from the parents having had crappy parents. It's like a chain.
How would you actually feel if your kid hanged himself, like so many other children do? Kids get bullied and you use that into a lesson in some twisted masculinity (don't be a pu$$y) lesson when you could at least comfort them. Maybe teach them how to cope with pain and hurt, teach them how to be a better person, how important it is not to treat anyone this way. But this is what you chose? And your child has autism? You should know better as a human being.
This is the kind of parenting that brings forth those lone gunman shootings sprees. Woman I am so ashamed of you
Woman, I hope you're not an American. Your son will have easy access to firearms, and you will be his first target.
Next week, "I have no idea why my son became a school shooter, must be video games or vaccines"
Shìt this reminds me a lot of my own mother. Would give me crappy advice like “ignore them and they’ll stop” or “that means he likes you!”. Not to mention she emotionally abused me. Now I have severe anger issues and am way too willing to punch someone for looking at me weird…
I’m sorry that your mom treated you like that, I hope you’re doing better now, I hate that people automatically assume that a boy likes her if he’s picking on someone, it’s a jump to conclusions that 9 times out of 10 is wrong. 🙃🫶🏻
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oh wow..... what a vile woman. That child has so much going on in his life and the one person who is supposed to protect him basically tells him to die and not bother her.
I've never wanted to slap someone so hard before. She doesn't deserve to be a parent. Poor kid.
well, the first time he gets truly angry he will kill/ hurt his monster of a mother.
This parent is worse than the bully, who the f**k says this to their child. Disgusting and disgraceful.
OMG...your lucky your poor child didn't kill himself. Mind you, you would probably blamed him. Some parent you are telling him to off himself and don't come to you at all. Way to tell your child you don't give a s**t.
It’s okay, you can say twat here. Also wanker. It’s very applicable here!
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Maybe,like Tucker said , It will come out later and the news will say you were the Murder victim, The Killer-Your Son!
My guess is she was the bully in school and has never been bullied herself. She seem so clueless about how much it stings, and how big an impact it can have on somebody's life. The solution is not just to suck it up because life sucks. Bullying is not just a fact of life, it can and should be dealt with, that way we can eliminate a lot of suffering. Life is hard and challenging enough as it there is no need to add artificial struggles.
Its f*****g ridiculous how this lady thinks, I'd like to go to her house and beat the s**t out of her! 🤬
what is wrong with you?! That your child you lying piece of shark you promised to love your child and you can't help or love them! You are toxic and don't deserve to EVER be a mother! Your horrible wanting your child in misery and to be dead! I don't even think you would care to pay for a funeral! Your supposed to defend and love and you can never do that acting like this! Love your children
Also you have no idea how he's doing because I guarantee you he's not going to tell you.
I would love to know how that mother would feel of her son actually killed himself. Would you be like oh well?
Mother of the Year- wow no heart or empathy. Bet she was a mean girl who bullied other kids herself
I notice these are all in America and people wonder why people go crazy and shoot people
……right…….. great plan boil it up and then lose your son EARLY and have it be YOUR FAULT
more or less, online troll: perhaps but not that likely, actual big smelly ogre thats a piece of s**t just like they are in the movies?: more likely ;)
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The Sheer Nerve Of Not Wanting To Die An Early, Preventable Death! Disgusting
Surprise: they will have a flower girl AND ring bearer, it just won't be you!
It Sure Is A Mystery
Like all the times I've been asked to house sit for the duration of my mom's family vacation? Like WTF? I hadn't been invited ONCE until I'd said no and brought up the fact I have never been invited to the FAMILY vacation. Now, she doesn't ask me to house sit anymore and I've still only been invited that once. JFC.
I Guess Some People Never Learn That Their Kids Are Separate People Who Deserve Autonomy Smh
I Thought I Found An Airtight Escape From My Abusive Family In The Form Of A Great Job On The Opposite Coast. Guess Not. Ploy #397866 To Keep Me From Leaving: Unannounced Vacation That Conveniently Starts On The Same Day As My Job!
You Aren't Stressing Hard Enough To Put Your Kid In An Actual School Though
This Mom "Playing Chicken" With Her Kids And An Suv
Reading all these stories, I'm just shaking my head in disbelief. I'm so thankful I have a loving normal family.
'ethnic Stench'
Stop Talking About Your Children’s Genitalia, You Weird Bastard
Imagine Encouraging Or Even Allowing Your Children To Dress Up Like This On Halloween
My Mother, After She Kicked Me Out When She Found Letters My Girlfriend Wrote For Me (We're Both Girls)
Oh yes, the cups. The cups for you. The cups called especially to arrest you. Your cups.
Sending Her Daughter Away To A Church For A Year Because She Wants A College Education
Twitter User Finds Their Dad Has Been Using A Tracker To Track Them After They Had Moved Out Of Their (Abusive) Household
Is She Overburdening Her?
Wtf does a nursery student need tution for? All she has to do is learn colours, alphabets etc, not algebraic expressions or Shakespheare!
I Remembered This And Thought It Would Fit Here
Let's Hope He Didn't Get His PC With His Own Savings
Poor kid, can't even escape his horrid reality for a while. I hope he has family support.
Imagine Being Grounded For Being Considerate
Again, child protective services. It's their choice whether they want to wear a mask
(In University) Parents Track My Location And Knows I Didn’t Go To Class (Because I Had Already Turned In The Project We Were Working On And Didn’t Need To Work In Studio)
What??
I’m Going To An Iron Maiden Concert. I’m Also Almost 30
This new music is corrupting our children! Wait, these 80s kids are just boring and quite ordinary adults now? Who would have thought
I’m Sorry But That’s Pathetic
The snarky a*****e side of me wants to say "Oh, so you'd prefer your son bring home a white BOY?" ...But of course a mom like this wouldn't support their son if he wasn't straight.
I'm On A School Trip... On My Way To The School
"Mommy Moment"
I’m The Only Kid In The Family Who Didn’t Become A Doctor. My Mom Forced My Dad To Post For My Graduation Since He Always Brags About My Doctor And Dentist Siblings. This Is What I Got Lol
Gotta Love My Homophobic Dad. I Wasn't Even Intentionally Making An Lgbtq+ Design, Lol. Just Wanted A Rainbow
Beware the Rainbow Mafia! They come at you with glitter and fabulousness
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I was on the brink of a panic attack partway through this list and had to leave. Made me relive my childhood :(
Some people should never become parents. In fact, procreation should be made illegal in their cases. Smh...
You should have to have a license to have a child.
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This list has reminded me that while my parents are far from perfect, they are absolutely wonderful and I'm lucky to have them.
Same!! They may have been unreasonable and pissed me off many, many times, but I know that I matter to them and they love me.
Load More Replies... This post was so triggering. I can't believe so many kids have this kind of life. So many parents are so incredibly evil. I thought there were better support systems in place for abused children now, wtf.
Sure, if the kid is *believed*. The default is "but the kid's lying, the adult says so" unless there's clear physical harm. (And clear physical harm where I live is sometimes apparently "bone sticking out"). Basically, nobody should be allowed to parent without first passing psych screenings.
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I couldn't go through, it's the most depressing thing I ever read. I wish all of those kids are ok went NC
This thread caused me to experience considerable anxiety. I did end up with one of my daughter's friends on my sofa. She was escaping her toxic family. In the end the Police and Social Services became involved, and she ended up living with us. I desperately hope that many of the young people captured here escaped too.
WTH????!!! This should not have been posted at all. BP will block words like d*ck, but put up this horrific, triggering post?!! I come here for a quick escape to lighten my day. If I wanted to read schit like this I'll go to regular news outlets. Shame on you BP.
Remember when this site was about cute animals and funny stories?
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I've long held the belief that both heaven and hell are comforting concepts. Heaven for obvious reasons, and hell because no earthly punishment seems sufficient for some people.
I was abused by several people. But my I was talking to my therapist about my main perpetrator one day. She said something to the effect that he was going to Hell. She's Jewish. So it made me really happy she was willing to believe in hell for a moment. I tried to make some excuse for him and she said "I don't care. That doesn't give him the right to make someone else's life s**t!" Ah! I love that woman!
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And these parents are shocked when their kids turn 18 and go full no-contact.
This whole thread displays predominantly American parenting. It also demonstrates how sick our country is. I worry that these kids will parent their kids like this instead of move away and break ties. These are largely absolutely disgusting parents.
Believe me, Russian parenting is no better. More physically violent, in fact.
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I think there are a group of people here who are here just to downvote. I've seen it happen on so many normal comments. It's not even funny anymore. Anyway, I'm glad the pill helped you with your heavy menstrual cycle! I luckily only had that for a few years before it lessened. It really is crippling.
I think sometimes it's accidental. I've accidentally downvoted when scrolling. I'm guessing that there have been times I haven't caught it
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These posts all make me wish I had been stronger and stood up to my horrible parents. I should have left the minute I turned 18.
You did what you could when you could. Looking back always makes us think "Why this, why that", but living in an abusive situation does things to your mind, especially if you're a girl. Don't doubt anything you did to get where you are now, you did what you could when you finally trusted your idea of the future and what would happen... I hope you're doing okay or at least better now. Take care!
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I've never felt such a stronger urge to go out and create as many orphans as I have after reading this page
Makes me so damn glad I got tf out when I did. Brrr some of those people do not deserve kids
Many of those egg- and sperm donors actually only have one problem... that is the fact that they are still breathing. I hope all those kids, young als older, get/got the help they needed or could get out.
Posts like this make me appreciate that my parents have been supportive, selfless and awesome all of my life. I'm in my 50's now and they'll both be turning 82 this year. The fact that I will have to say goodbye to them in a relatively foreseeable future breaks my heart. The ONLY upside of having s****y parents like these prime examples in the post above is that you won't have to deal with the pain of losing them eventually I guess.
Don't read this. There are entries about abuse and death in here. Don't open this.
Wow, couldn't even finish this list. These... people are a very good argument for mandatory training (at least) and even licensing before you're allowed to have a child. The idea that you're just the boss of your children and they should just follow your every order, with no love or even affection involved is so alien to me! I'm thoroughly disgusted.
I really hope most of the parents on this list get estranged because they don't deserve to have loving children or to be taken care of in their old age by their children.
I would normally say give parents a break, but these are awful! I hope these people ended up okay after these experiences.
And so the cheapest, nastiest nursing home in town continued to stay in business for another ten years.
Oh.Joy. What a fun way to relive my horrible childhood. My mother was an alcoholic, prescription drug addict with Munchausen's by proxy. My elder sister and I are still suffering from her lack of care when we were sick as children while she waited for us to become sick enough so that SHE could get attention from the doctors and staff. I had pneumonia multiple times and my sister went partially deaf from ear infections. Ironically, we were military dependents so we could go to the infirmary, anytime, with no charges for care or medication.
Somebody needs to tell the Iron Maiden hating mama that the song isn't what she thinks it's about- in fact the opposite. While I'm at it the drummer is a born again christian.
Well, that was depressing. Some people should not be parents. I only hope that their children leave them to it as soon as they're old enough because no one should have to live with these utter sh!tstains for parents.
I remember when my cousin was in college and her roommate was on the phone talking to her mother. The roommates mom was yelling at her and saying she was ugly and worthless and so many other horrible things 😠. My cousin was so upset she called her own mom crying and apologized for all the times she acted up and told my aunt(her mom) what a wonderful mother she was.
Faith in humanity fading... fading... RISING!... fading... fading... gone.
This is how you end up old and alone in a sh*tty old people's home with no one visiting you. And you deserve it.
just reading all of this makes me want to vomit. no wonder everyone is insecure…kind of makes me more insecure… (edit: i feel so sorry for all the kids, hope ur doing well❤️)
I have been reading Panda for years and this is the first time I couldn’t stomach reading the whole thing. I wanna hug my mom and dad so bad right now, while they were/are not perfect this bull makes me appreciate their particular brand of crazy so much more!!!
Raise your hand if you feel imposter syndrome pretending to grieve because the evil parent died.
Nope. Mines not even dead yet. But no contact since 2008. Mom's very sick. Totally do not care! Every time I think of her all I feel is relief that I'm not in that house anymore. It actually makes me kind of happy she isn't privileged enough to have a relationship with me. She didn't earn it. And I'm so good with that. Love that I'm free!
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I was on the brink of a panic attack partway through this list and had to leave. Made me relive my childhood :(
Some people should never become parents. In fact, procreation should be made illegal in their cases. Smh...
You should have to have a license to have a child.
Load More Replies... This list has reminded me that while my parents are far from perfect, they are absolutely wonderful and I'm lucky to have them.
Same!! They may have been unreasonable and pissed me off many, many times, but I know that I matter to them and they love me.
Load More Replies... This post was so triggering. I can't believe so many kids have this kind of life. So many parents are so incredibly evil. I thought there were better support systems in place for abused children now, wtf.
Sure, if the kid is *believed*. The default is "but the kid's lying, the adult says so" unless there's clear physical harm. (And clear physical harm where I live is sometimes apparently "bone sticking out"). Basically, nobody should be allowed to parent without first passing psych screenings.
Load More Replies... I couldn't go through, it's the most depressing thing I ever read. I wish all of those kids are ok went NC
This thread caused me to experience considerable anxiety. I did end up with one of my daughter's friends on my sofa. She was escaping her toxic family. In the end the Police and Social Services became involved, and she ended up living with us. I desperately hope that many of the young people captured here escaped too.
WTH????!!! This should not have been posted at all. BP will block words like d*ck, but put up this horrific, triggering post?!! I come here for a quick escape to lighten my day. If I wanted to read schit like this I'll go to regular news outlets. Shame on you BP.
Remember when this site was about cute animals and funny stories?
Load More Replies... I've long held the belief that both heaven and hell are comforting concepts. Heaven for obvious reasons, and hell because no earthly punishment seems sufficient for some people.
I was abused by several people. But my I was talking to my therapist about my main perpetrator one day. She said something to the effect that he was going to Hell. She's Jewish. So it made me really happy she was willing to believe in hell for a moment. I tried to make some excuse for him and she said "I don't care. That doesn't give him the right to make someone else's life s**t!" Ah! I love that woman!
Load More Replies... And these parents are shocked when their kids turn 18 and go full no-contact.
This whole thread displays predominantly American parenting. It also demonstrates how sick our country is. I worry that these kids will parent their kids like this instead of move away and break ties. These are largely absolutely disgusting parents.
Believe me, Russian parenting is no better. More physically violent, in fact.
Load More Replies... I think there are a group of people here who are here just to downvote. I've seen it happen on so many normal comments. It's not even funny anymore. Anyway, I'm glad the pill helped you with your heavy menstrual cycle! I luckily only had that for a few years before it lessened. It really is crippling.
I think sometimes it's accidental. I've accidentally downvoted when scrolling. I'm guessing that there have been times I haven't caught it
Load More Replies... These posts all make me wish I had been stronger and stood up to my horrible parents. I should have left the minute I turned 18.
You did what you could when you could. Looking back always makes us think "Why this, why that", but living in an abusive situation does things to your mind, especially if you're a girl. Don't doubt anything you did to get where you are now, you did what you could when you finally trusted your idea of the future and what would happen... I hope you're doing okay or at least better now. Take care!
Load More Replies... I've never felt such a stronger urge to go out and create as many orphans as I have after reading this page
Makes me so damn glad I got tf out when I did. Brrr some of those people do not deserve kids
Many of those egg- and sperm donors actually only have one problem... that is the fact that they are still breathing. I hope all those kids, young als older, get/got the help they needed or could get out.
Posts like this make me appreciate that my parents have been supportive, selfless and awesome all of my life. I'm in my 50's now and they'll both be turning 82 this year. The fact that I will have to say goodbye to them in a relatively foreseeable future breaks my heart. The ONLY upside of having s****y parents like these prime examples in the post above is that you won't have to deal with the pain of losing them eventually I guess.
Don't read this. There are entries about abuse and death in here. Don't open this.
Wow, couldn't even finish this list. These... people are a very good argument for mandatory training (at least) and even licensing before you're allowed to have a child. The idea that you're just the boss of your children and they should just follow your every order, with no love or even affection involved is so alien to me! I'm thoroughly disgusted.
I really hope most of the parents on this list get estranged because they don't deserve to have loving children or to be taken care of in their old age by their children.
I would normally say give parents a break, but these are awful! I hope these people ended up okay after these experiences.
And so the cheapest, nastiest nursing home in town continued to stay in business for another ten years.
Oh.Joy. What a fun way to relive my horrible childhood. My mother was an alcoholic, prescription drug addict with Munchausen's by proxy. My elder sister and I are still suffering from her lack of care when we were sick as children while she waited for us to become sick enough so that SHE could get attention from the doctors and staff. I had pneumonia multiple times and my sister went partially deaf from ear infections. Ironically, we were military dependents so we could go to the infirmary, anytime, with no charges for care or medication.
Somebody needs to tell the Iron Maiden hating mama that the song isn't what she thinks it's about- in fact the opposite. While I'm at it the drummer is a born again christian.
Well, that was depressing. Some people should not be parents. I only hope that their children leave them to it as soon as they're old enough because no one should have to live with these utter sh!tstains for parents.
I remember when my cousin was in college and her roommate was on the phone talking to her mother. The roommates mom was yelling at her and saying she was ugly and worthless and so many other horrible things 😠. My cousin was so upset she called her own mom crying and apologized for all the times she acted up and told my aunt(her mom) what a wonderful mother she was.
Faith in humanity fading... fading... RISING!... fading... fading... gone.
This is how you end up old and alone in a sh*tty old people's home with no one visiting you. And you deserve it.
just reading all of this makes me want to vomit. no wonder everyone is insecure…kind of makes me more insecure… (edit: i feel so sorry for all the kids, hope ur doing well❤️)
I have been reading Panda for years and this is the first time I couldn’t stomach reading the whole thing. I wanna hug my mom and dad so bad right now, while they were/are not perfect this bull makes me appreciate their particular brand of crazy so much more!!!
Raise your hand if you feel imposter syndrome pretending to grieve because the evil parent died.
Nope. Mines not even dead yet. But no contact since 2008. Mom's very sick. Totally do not care! Every time I think of her all I feel is relief that I'm not in that house anymore. It actually makes me kind of happy she isn't privileged enough to have a relationship with me. She didn't earn it. And I'm so good with that. Love that I'm free!
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