Teen Gets Mad At His Dad For Interrupting His Date To Ask Him To Pick Up His Little Sister, Says He “Failed As A Parent”
Recently, a 43-year-old single dad turned to the AITA community on Reddit for a moral judgement.
In a post that amassed 15.7k upvotes and 3.7k comments, the dad explained that he usually picks up his 8-year-old daughter Lisa after school clubs, but one day, he had to stay late at work.
“I did try my best to negotiate out of it but my manager told me that the assignment was to be completed by that night so I just did,” the dad explained.
The only way to collect Lisa was to ask his teen son, who, it turned out, had a very different evening plan.
A single dad wonders if he was wrong to interrupt his teen son’s date so he could pick up his little sister, after the dad got stuck late at work
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Being a single parent is not easy, there’s no doubt about it. But according to the data from the Pew Research Center, a whopping one-quarter of kids in the U.S. live with a single parent, which is the highest rate in the world.
Moreover, according to a recent report from LendingTree, there are over 1.5 million single dads in the U.S. — a number that’s anything but insignificant. This translates to more than 1.5 million single fathers.
As you may suspect, the number of single-mother families is much higher with more than 6.3 million or 19.1% of parent-child families.
The same report suggests that the average income for single-father families is $67,405 — a third less than the average for all families where parents raise their children ($101,536). Even so, it’s significantly higher than the average income among single-mother families ($40,500).
However, a growing body of studies reveal that children are better off raised by a single parent as opposed to living with married parents who conflict a lot. It’s also important to note that despite the initial challenges, children raised by one divorced parent sometimes have better outcomes than children raised by a parent who is remarried.
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The dad later shared more information in response to these comments
Many people expressed their support for the author
Others thought that his boss was a jerk
The boss is the a*****e. You can't just assign tasks to your employees in the evening and expect them to stay overtime with no prior notice. People have lives beyond their jobs.
I agree that the Boss is the real ahole here. The boss could have allowed OP to pick up his kid and then OP could have continued working. There was no compromise at all.. Edit: Typo.
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I had my gf s**t on me for fetching my kids... she's not a teenager. She's in her 30s. Some people do not understand the relative roles of family, kids, and partners, and which responsibility comes first.
Thank goodness! I was preparing for all the "YTA", which would be dead wrong. This man is a single parent. He has asked his son for help in a jam 3 times in 18 months. The son is being a selfish teenager and I hope he grows out of it. I understand that he's 17 and is starting to have his own life but his priorities are terrible. Man, I'd have been so grateful to get use of a car that I'd be happy to run errands as a thanks. I'd have also felt really horrible knowing my young sibling was being left alone with nowhere to go, but that's me. Dad needs to try have a talk with son and son needs a reality check.
After the third time I'd say the teen shouldn't lose the car for 3 weeks. I'd say "nope lol I'm selling the car. You've got a chance to buy it but I'm not loaning you the money." The kid is *borrowing* the car and the condition is that he uses it to help out when asked.
Load More Replies... The boss is the a*****e. You can't just assign tasks to your employees in the evening and expect them to stay overtime with no prior notice. People have lives beyond their jobs.
I agree that the Boss is the real ahole here. The boss could have allowed OP to pick up his kid and then OP could have continued working. There was no compromise at all.. Edit: Typo.
Load More Replies... I had my gf s**t on me for fetching my kids... she's not a teenager. She's in her 30s. Some people do not understand the relative roles of family, kids, and partners, and which responsibility comes first.
Thank goodness! I was preparing for all the "YTA", which would be dead wrong. This man is a single parent. He has asked his son for help in a jam 3 times in 18 months. The son is being a selfish teenager and I hope he grows out of it. I understand that he's 17 and is starting to have his own life but his priorities are terrible. Man, I'd have been so grateful to get use of a car that I'd be happy to run errands as a thanks. I'd have also felt really horrible knowing my young sibling was being left alone with nowhere to go, but that's me. Dad needs to try have a talk with son and son needs a reality check.
After the third time I'd say the teen shouldn't lose the car for 3 weeks. I'd say "nope lol I'm selling the car. You've got a chance to buy it but I'm not loaning you the money." The kid is *borrowing* the car and the condition is that he uses it to help out when asked.
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