Dad has recently gotten himself a much younger girlfriend whom he has moved in last month. My bedroom and their bedroom are wall to wall. The fact that they fuck doesn’t make me uncomfortable - so happy for them, but they do it on max volume. No joke. Every night at 11 and in the morning at 6 on the clock. These walls are paper thin apparently.

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    “Not obligated”. Tell that to the teen who wants to live their life but is stuck home every Friday night to watch their siblings.

    Can they help once in a while ,yes.

    But too many parents become seriously self entitled, and before anyone claims I’m not that old, so how would I know? I’m over 50. Fair amount of experience with entitled people.

    And not calling it baby sitting and trying to call it “taking care of the sibling” is just splitting hairs.

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      I was 1 of several kids I don’t need a lecture and I don’t know why your base assumption is that this is guaranteed to happen to OP.

      It’s not babysitting when it’s family. In fact I get pretty upset when someone describes me as “babysitting” my kids. I’m being a parent. It’s not the same thing, it’s not splitting hairs.

      I don’t care if people have children or not that’s their prerogative but anti-natalism is seeping into everything these days it seems.

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        Look at the number of up vs down votes. That should tell you where the thoughts are of others. Have a nice day.

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          You can’t be serious.

          Even if we concede that somehow magic internet points are indicative of “who is correct,” which is absurd but let’s just give you that one, you’re talking 4-6 up/down on the most weighed in comment. The rest are 2-2, 1-1, 1-0. All of those downvotes are YOU by the way after the initial comment, I haven’t downvoted anything of yours.

          Congratulations. You are Correct :TM: by your narrow, arbitrary definition. Well done. Good Job.