Absent father doesn’t spend time with son for 11 years, worries he is trying to bribe him into living with him when he is 14: ‘His stepdad treats him worse than the other kids’

You only have to have a short conversation with any therapist to realize that there are a heck of a lot of parents out there who are not particularly good at the job of parenting. There are plenty of ways to screw up a kid, and not all of them enable a redemption arc as …
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‘They came back with $2,000 in an envelope’: Parents bribe adult son to attend sister’s wedding despite toxic brother’s attendance, it backfires

Bribes, though generally frowned upon, are usually effective. Cash is a very powerful motivator. Take, for instance, YouTube behemoth Mr. Beast. The whole conceit of his channel is bribing normal people into doing difficult and unsavory tasks (like surviving in a grocery store for as long as possible or completing a high-stakes obstacle course) in …
Seguir leyendo ‘They came back with $2,000 in an envelope’: Parents bribe adult son to attend sister’s wedding despite toxic brother’s attendance, it backfires