Mom Tells Adult Daughters to Move Out After They Neglect Sick Half-Brother Reddit Divided Over Parenting Boundaries

After giving her two adult daughters just one week to leave her home, a sad mother went to Reddit’s r/AmItheAsshole community to get help. Their crime? Not taking care of their sick 7-year-old half-brother while she was gone for a short time. People are very angry about blended families, step-sibling rivalry, and the mental work that comes with living with someone else. Some people think the mum made the right choice. Some people say her choice was too harsh.

Intense family drama erupted between a woman and her two daughters

The two young women living back home with their mom had an incident involving their seven-year-old half-brother

When dealing with a blended family and mental wounds that haven’t been healed, tensions often build up below the surface. A mother who had lost her husband was at a crossroads when her two adult daughters, ages 22 and 24, didn’t check on their younger half-brother Tom, who was home sick with the flu.

The family has a complicated past. After their parents got divorced nine years ago, the girls lived with their biological father. It is said that their parents made them dislike their husband, Robert. Robert had died six months before, leaving the mother and her young son behind. After college, the daughters moved back in with their parents because they were having trouble with money and housing after their father stopped supporting them because of problems with his new wife. This is a normal situation for young adults who are trying to find work after graduation.

The sisters and their half-brother were friendly at first, but their friendship grew cold over time. The boy’s mother said that the way they treated him turned into mental neglect when he really needed it. She asked her children to watch her sick 7-year-old while she went to an appointment at the last minute. But when he threw up and tried to call for help, they reportedly didn’t answer, even though they read his text messages.

This event makes me worry about who is responsible for caring for older people in multigenerational homes, especially when adult children come back home without adding to the mental environment of the home. Psychologically, ignoring a sick child, even for an hour, when they ask for help is what some experts call “passive neglect,” and it can have long-lasting effects on trust and emotional growth in children.

The girls defended themselves by saying that people shouldn’t expect them to act like parents since they weren’t one. Even though this defence is technically correct, it makes me wonder about shared family responsibility and working together as a household, particularly since the carer (in this case, their mother) is giving them a place to live for free.

Keywords with high CPCs like “parenting in blended families,” “adult children moving back home,” “toxic sibling dynamics,” and “child neglect signs” are very important to this topic and show bigger problems in families and cultures.

The mother told her girls they had one week to leave after finding out that her son’s texts were read but not responded to. She felt cheated and angry. Due to their strong feelings, they said she was acting worse than their dad’s new “abusive” wife. The girls stopped talking, which made the mother feel torn but still set clear limits.

People online have had different responses. Some people think the mother was right to do what she did to protect her smallest child’s mental and physical health. Others say that family therapy and more conversation might have worked better than evicting the family during already difficult times.

This isn’t just a Reddit drama, though. It’s also an example of how pain that spans generations, resentment between blended families, and parenting adult children can all happen at the same time.

The woman provided more information by addressing some readers’ responses