Well said. And given the mother abandoned OP to go on vacation with her new family; if someone got wind of that, they would contact social services to remove him from her, place him in foster care, and then with a kind and loving adoptive family.
Well, depends on the kid! If the kid is an a-hole then that is justified, but according to the description this guy wasn't. It's not like you sign your life away when you have a kid, hell the best parents IMHO are those who (while willing to make sacrifices for their kids) don't give up on being their own person, with hobbies, even dreams! Yes, you might not get as far as you might have without a kid and you should (within reason) do a lot for the kid, but you should also not always put yourself second! Hell, my own father (note: I hate my lying, cheating, thieving mother, so yeah I am quite focused on my dad) had hobbies (he still does! Hell, the guy has more stamina than I do and he's 65 (!)) while raising me (with my stepmother).
@@danacarter9147 Yes this sucks - my own mother did something similar! She went on rehab after surgery and basically left me with the key to her apartmen, her dog and a few hundred bucks for food! I made it about a week (loved being on my own for a while)...after that I called my dad to fetch me (I had no driver's license and no car back then) and he did...I dropped the key off with a neighbour my mother designated as "she'll help you if need anything" (would have talked to the neighbour, but she was not there when I rang) ps: Wouldn't social services call the father (joint custody - which would then give him custody if she's removed from joint custody, right?) to get him?
@@girl1213 Except the "reason" was all based on a lie. That is the point they were making above. Essentially he was being an ass only to find out he had not reason to be
I was taught various guns and knives by the age of 10. There's PLENTY a 16 year old can do to defend his home turf with that knowledge. You are the weak spot in this one, sad to say.
@@zarroth you're wrong because we don't know if he's done self defence or trained to fight. how the hell would an inexperienced kid be able to fight armed robbers? seems you are the weak spot, sad to say
@@zarroth huh? I was taught various guns and knives from age 8, doesn't mean I had complete access to the guns, a knife can only do so much if there's multiple people which there usually tends to be. Your brain is the weak spot of your life
The mum using the fact that she sacrificed so much as emotional manipulation is disgusting not only that every parent sacrifice's for their kid it doesn't make her special.
I think if we dig further we'd find it's only the dad who made sacrifices to live in the same city. The mom probably never got any big job opportunities or a romantic relationship either. Men normally knows when a woman is nuts. That stepfather Jake didn't know because he's a 42 years old man child. That's why he didn't treat op bad because he isn't a bad man but also not an adult either.
Reminds me of something I was thinking about a few weeks ago. I'd been joking with my little brother about how he "owes me his life" because I saved his life twice when he was a toddler. Right as I said that though, I was disgusted with myself for saying it, even as a joke. I didn't save him so that he'd be indebted to me, I did it to save him. My brother, who's currently 9, doesn't owe me shit, and I told him as much right after making that joke. The fact that this mom tried to say "I gave up so much for you" is disgusting.
I would reply saying "you spent three years around me infront of my mum and alone, in those three years did you ever think this is wrong? That I have never done or acted in anyway like how she described, how your own kids hated me because of what you told them but they never came to you about me treating them wrong. You may have been lied to but your actions are your own, you are an adult and you chose not to change in years. Your kids however are still children and their faults still lay with you, they watched you be cruel and thought that is the right way to treat others. I hope they can grow up and change and be better than the pair of you" If op sends something like that it might remind him he made his own kids just as bad as him over something between adults and didn't correct it in years.
The new man is jealous of the attention that you get from mom. He will sabotage you, every chance he gets, watch your back. Also he wants to be the only grown male telling your mom what to do.
There is a high probability that he would have been there when it was robbed, and he could have been injured or killed. But all she cares about is the items taken....bye mom, see you never
I wouldnt give a single f**k about the things stolen from my house when on a vaccation, because every physical belonging will be replaced by the insurance company in mere days anyways and as long none of my relatives got involved/hurt it is manageable. i will definitly rethink security stuff if its that easy to get into my home, but i will never think "why didnt you defend the TV with your life, its gone now"🙄 unbelievable "parent".
Dad set up the robbing. Son has been abused for years, Dad knows the house is empty for a week. Dad knows where the key is hidden. Dad said he would "take care of everything." Dad is a good Dad.
To begin with, isn't going to vacation with her family, and without OP, the definition of ABANDONMENT OF A MINOR, also the treatment towards OP from Jake and Co. count as a form of abuse?
@@kos2919 i was asking because, wouldn't that be enough to file a report to the police? Because así de from abandonment it could potebtially count as endangerment of a minor as well. Dad should have called the police as well aside from demanding( and obtaining) full custody. After all the mother is a monster for subjecting her child to all that.
@@Chuckakhan Indeed! Don't make MY mistake! My own mum is similar to that mother and I frankly never sued her...should have, but my own dad is too good-natured and always talked me out of it (I don't get my dad! She cheated, she hurt him, she used me to hurt him, too (note: He had full custody, but she had visitation, so she used that to hurt him by for example flying to France with me, without telling him first and by allowing me to basically go wild while I was staying with her, so I came back expecting the same freedoms at home, which my dad of course didn't grant, which led to many - partially even justified IMHO because having strict rules sucks if none of your friends do - arguments and fights! Still, he didn't want me to take her to court, something I'll never understand!)
Not the mother only, both her and her bf. They both severely neglected the kid, abandonned him alone, in a house, which was then robbed so security isn't on point, went no contact after an argument, the kid could be dead in that same house for all they knew. Jail.
"You should have been home when the robbers came after seeing me and my new husband and kids leave for vacation! Maybe you'd scare them off, maybe you'd get killed. Now we'll never know and we lost the TV. This is all your fault!" - Mother of the Year.
Her logic was that robbers will usually stay clear of a house with clear signs of activity, which is not wrong tbh. But her behaviour and abandonment of her kid is still abject and she fully deserved to have her house emptied. Robbers probably saw the house completely left alone and got a payday for it.
The mom is the particularly bad one in all of this but the fact that Jake didn’t sit down with him even once for a whole three years to try to fix things with him is also pretty insane.
He is a type of person who once hearing that some talked crap behind him, doesn't confront and sort things out. Tis not a good habit to have and not a crime itself. Many people have this bad habit of just sulking and not working out on solutions, so we cannot say this to be criminal act.
@@cosmicchad4752 He should have at least formed his own opinion of the only 13 year old son of the woman he's marrying. Sure, some kids are just jerks, but a 42 year old man should know by that age that a lot of kids make trouble growing up for all sorts of reasons, not just because they like making trouble even if the mom thinks otherwise.
@@Ollybollyk Yeah, honestly the sane response to that would have been "he's a teenager afraid he's being replaced by a man with 2 other sons close to his age. I need to make extra effort to make him feel included". Then again, if the mom kept lying and discouraging any idea of reaching out...
OP's dad should go full scorched earth. Full custody, no visitation and she has to pay child support. Jake is massive C U Next Tuesday. Not even bothering to talk to OP? He didn't even try to establish a relationship? Well OP's mom is proof that a woman will sacrifice her family for her happiness
There was one story on Reddit where an OP (who was a cop) arrested a guy for SA’ing his teenage stepdaughter. And when they told the girl’s mother what her husband had done, the woman asked the cops to take her daughter away instead.
So here is something i don't understand- If Jake thought OP was this terrible horrible delinquent why DID he decide to leave OP alone in his house for a whole week? why didn't they go on their holiday when OP was with dad or demand OP go back to dad while they went away? As for mom's 'she wanted them to be a HAPPY family' how could they be a happy family when she was sowing distrust and suspicion?
@mnomadvfx There's a good chance it is, but humans are inconsistent quite often. Sometimes because they're leaving something out, they're emotional and can't write quite right, etc. But there is a good 50/50 chance it's AI.
Mom is an evil tart, but Jake! He's a complete ah! This started when op was 13y/o. In 3 yrs he didn't realize his wife was lying? He was complicit in mistreating a child. What a dummy.
So Mom is mad at OP for leaving the house??? She ABANDONED HER CHILD!!!! And what’s worse, what is OP was home when the robbers came???? She is just as bad as her husband
it sounds to me she used her son to score points with her new husband,and he was just dumb enough to believe her blindly,regardless of what his own eyes and ears told him.
The email (a written evidence) is pretty damning itself, if op was pettier he could've used it to screw over Jake's divorce because of the knowing mistreatment can be used against his children. Was probably only apologizing in email to save his ass during the divorce proceedings
@@eeveestrainer4677Of course he isn't he should try to talk with him and ask way he ,, don't like him and his kids " Than OP will said the truth but this probably ended merriege much earlier.
Even worse given the fact that she was the cause of it all, and he wouldn't have been treated like that to begin with if she didn't pin him as the reason why Jake's sick mother couldn't live at her house, instead of just being honest.
The audacity she has to talk about "safety" while not even thinking about OP's safety. Like what makes her think some 16yr old guy would be able to do if a group of armed huge robbers broke in. It would have just put OP and his life in grave danger. Just shows how she cares more about her marriage and the stuff her husband(ex) provides/has over her own son's life. Such a horrible excuse of a human being is she
Exactly! What ‘safety is she to talking about when she didn’t even discuss being gone? If he had been home, worse than a missing tv would be the least of the argument happening and what we are listening to, real or not.
The mother pitted everyone against each other and then it blows up in her face. Also blaming her child that it is their fault a break-in occurred…. Mother of the year right there… OP sounds too serious for his age but that happens when you have to raise yourself.
Three letters CPS. You abandoned your child for a damn week to relax. It a good thing OP did leave cause, I'd fear what would have happened if he actually stayed in that house. Plus like OP said, your a 43 year old man, grow up
This isn't to excuse any of the abuse that kid went through and will sound harsh, but I find it disgusting that you would think to elevate it to that level while he had so many other options available. He already had a strong enough support network that he was aware of that he hadn't even tapped yet. People need to handle their own problems when they can, involving the government is just asking for something to go terribly awry. Arbitrarily using something like CPS for vindictive or insouciant reasons only takes resources away from those who truly have no other options and could lead all the way to a death since there is nothing too petty that police won't end someone over. But you're definitely right about the stepdad. After he decided on marriage he should have made regular efforts to smooth over his issues with the OP, given he was part of the package.
I don't know why people keep on saying Jake should have just talked to him when all Jake had to do was pay attention because with all his mama said that he was doing and saying would have not added up actions speak louder than words
@@vianjelosthis doesn't make any sense either. If a kid is constantly causing trouble at school wouldn't the said school try to contact the parents and find out what's going on or ask the parents to take action? Or if he was a delinquent like his mother portrayed him, he would've gotten at least a couple of suspensions in those 3 years.
My Mom used to tell me that her Husband didn't want me around. Made a big deal out of it, as if he'd mistreat her or something. I plainly asked her Husband about it. (He'd always been welcoming to me.) He looked shocked when I mentioned it. He told me that she has been telling him not to invite to functions & he's been ignoring her. She looked like she wanted to fight him afterwards. Psycho shit, for Attention & Control. She's a Narc & I'm the Black Sheep. Yeah, they divorced not long afterward. With those types of issues you have to take it to the source to air out. It breaks whatever bubble of control that's supposed to be gained by keeping you away from speaking to the other person.
@@Dustin81tbh I think he kinda does. Not for leaving him at home but rather for the silent treatment. He only ignored OP because he was repeatedly told OP was a thug that had it out for him and would harm his mother if they met. He was so heavily manipulated that he never even observed OP's behavior. Jake is a victim too.
@@PrinceAlhorian It is within the realm of possibility if this is real she was watching true crime shows then remembered home alone and said yep that will fix everything and was going around in public to sketchy places talking on the phone Loudly who when and how she will be the perfect mark full details the entire scout report it fills in all questions and plot holes, even if it's not real it's likely enough that it has probably happened so many times since home alone came out its why there way stricter rules on depends left alone.
If I was OP, his father, or Jake then I would question everything about her. 1. Is OP's father actually his real biological father? 2. Did his father and mother sacrifice better jobs to stay near each other? 3. I wonder if OP's was dating a lot of men that he didn't know about, then it would make sense for her to create a story about OP to hide her history and it was also used to block Jake's mother from moving in. 4. Jake told OP about his mother and father giving up a lot for OP, he felt she was a saint and even though she was a single mother changed his criteria and accepted her. This would explain why he felt like being with her was not rushing into things. 5. Jake would have been confused as to why she was so against his mother moving in when she is so caring, finding out that OP is a monster (according to her lies) would have been devastating. 6. I would not be surprised if a lot more shady information was uncovered about her if OP, his father, and Jake have a discussion about everything. She is so good at manipulation that no one questioned her, not spoke up and even now she is creating a new image of herself as a victim. 7. If 2 or more separate people say a person is a monster then they likely are, but if it's only one person who keeps you informed and they try to isolate you from them and their friends then you need to thoroughly question that persons motives and try to find out the truth
Wow. Did she use the phrase "apologize to me and my family?" You don't just leave. You don't just leave without saying anything. You certainly don't portray your own child as a selfish beast who is to blame for everything. Though points to Jake for at least apologizing. He didn't handle this well, but that at least was a decent thing to do. But this mother is a narcissistic monster.
People are so naive. The mother is the covert abuser that receives it's supply on watching what is happening and playing both sides. She thinks she has hands clean so there is no guilt on her. What Jake is telling OP is what his mother tells him. She is also creating the situations where Jake has the power to attack OP. She is the middle man and strategist. Edit: The "I made so many sacrifices for you" tactic using vague, distant and unproven situations is a classic for abuser worldwide.
How actually mental it is that a fully grown adult literaly ignores his step child & involves his own children in the same kind of behavior AND the mom just lets that happen because of the old I raised you card? Call cps ffs
How’s a fully grown Middle Aged man got beef with a 16 year old 🥲 is the stepdads frontal lobe still underdeveloped as he’s behaving like a teenager. And the mums “sacrifices” are not answerable by the child, as a parent you choose to make sacrifices for your kid as a big part of parenthood is being selfless.
Wow the mum totally neglects her son and she expects her son to be ok with it, also her new husband and his kids are abusing OP by sending him to Coventry for no reason. I'm so glad that OP has a decent dad and he can turn to him, OPs mum is the useless one and caused all the hate in the new family situation, if I was OP I'd go NC with his mum and let her deal with the consequences that her actions caused and of that means she spends the rest of her life alone and miserable then so be it it's what she deserves
While I don't blame Jake for believing his partner and being mad with OP, I DEFINITELY fault him for at least not talking to him about ANYTHING. The moment he heard OP allegedly had something to say about his mother and children, he should've confronted OP and the truth would've came out much sooner. I mean why would even still bring your kids to live with a person who, allegedly, hates them and talks bad about them??? Like this whole scenario sounds so unrealistic, especially with the other kids being involved because you KNOW kids can't hold water
Jake already doesn’t sound like the considerate guy. He propose OP and his mom move in with him, with his sick mother after a few months. Not a good sign for a father to not only move a kid doesn’t even know into his mom, but with someone who sick (even if they have a nurse). Both of those elements are not something you should do when yo still trying to figure out how serious the relationship.
'It's a matter of safety!' Yeah, the KID'S safety! If the place had been robbed while the kid was IN the house? What would have potentially happened? What if the kid had gotten hurt? What if the thief had had a gun? What if he'd been killed? What would she have said then? I guess it would have been the kid's fault. An absolute terrible mother and person.
When I married a woman with children, I committed myself to them as much as to their mother. Now, they are all grown, and have children of their own. My marriage didn't last, but my relationships with my step-kids is really strong to this day. I love them like they're my own, I would lay down my life for any one of them.
At first I thought Jake was the bastard here but after hearing the lies that your own mom said about you, she’s the real asshole here and good on Jake for apologizing to you at least. Good for you for sticking up for yourself kiddo, and you’re better off being with your dad if you ask me
Honestly, this woman is absolutely messed up and I’m so happy OP at least has a wonderful father to look after them. Because I agree this woman made her bed now she has to lie in it. She doesn’t get to try and make your out to be her personal skape goat then expecting the OP to want to stick around to play happy family with her much as expect her soon to be stay with her, she lied when she could’ve just been honest with him, but made her out the punching bag. People this manipulative, toxic,selfish don’t deserve to have children.😓
People need to teach their children that it is okay to talk to them about people hurting them, even if it is the other parent hurting and abusing them. That witch was emotionally abusing her child, and she let a man abuse her child for her gain.
His “ mother “ , I use that term loosely, knew about Jake’s animosity towards her son BEFORE she married him , and she still did. She tried to emotionally manipulate her son telling him she passed up numerous men to put him first, yet she married a scum bag who hated her child. You need to cut her out of your life, she chose a new family over you and doesn’t give a damn about you . Stay with you father, he loves you .
That Jake probably hates that he has to share your mom's affection and time, there is douchebags who get with women who have kids and then "complain" about them showing their kid affection and spending time with the kid!
When the house got robbed he could of been killed, a few belongings got stolen and she didn't even consider that fact that she could of came home to him dead after the robbery.
This reminds me so much of my mother. She left my dad for a new man but loved to lie about and come up with all sorts of stories. She wouldn't defend us when he yelled at us for no reason and expected us to be sympathetic. I was 14 and am glad I decided that I would stay with my dad. It was hard enough to visit. I feel for OP.
Sad part is that only reason OP got an apology or any answer is the fact that woman had a spoonful of conscience. She could have easily burried the leads if she kept her mouth shut and just removed OP from her life.
He was kind enough to lock the house up. I would probably not have bothered. I was a horrible and angry kid around this age. I know i would have lashed out if my mother pulled something like this.
Honestly felt she was a trash mom from the moment he said how he was being treated and his mom allowed it and now that we know the reason i feel even more so. Im glad the mom got her karma.
The mom really tried to talk "safety" of their house?? What about OPs safety should they have been present when the robbers broke in and were the violent type? What if something else happened?? Disgusting
Parents never sacrifice anything for children, any parent who believes such is immature and a narcissist and probably shouldn't have children as they see the responsibility of raising kids to be a job or chore and that mentality is wrong and broken.
Shoulf apologise. "I am sorry that you are so blind to see how terrible of a mother you are, and that you abandoned a literal child on their own for a week without telling them anything. I'm sorry you ignored my calls, and didn't call me back when you got to the hotel like you said, I'm sorry your actions caused you to be robbed, I'm sorry that you will soon have to pay my dad child support since I'm still a kid and living with him full time". See, apologies can help get things off your chest
If you are forced to spend time with her (due to being a minor) just ignore her and not talk to her the way she forced you to live due to her lies. The fact that she was not charged for neglect and abuse shows either she had a good lawyer or you and your dad are good people who didn't force the issue.
Wtf is a teen to do in the event of a break in? Just because he was home doesn't guarantee that the break in wouldn't have happened. I fucking hate adults who do this kind of bullshit.
My mom didn't lie but she tried to get me to live with her and her boyfriend who beat her years later she was saying how she always wanted me to live with them so I told her very bluntly he beat you all the time right her: yeah me: what the fuck did you think would happen to me? Her crying I never thought of that yeah you were selfish and my grandparents and I both always said no I was very aware as a kid and I knew it would have been miserable.
Nah, too much drama. Maybe he could just reply to confirm that it happened and then post the screenshot online. Let everyone know she was the crazy one. Hopefully that also help with Jake's divorce. Leave her with nothing, not even her new family.
Well it seems the Mom had enough love for OP in her heart to not disown him, and admit that she lied about him to her Husband... But not enough to NOT do it in the first place, and allow him to be mistreated through having to deal with the passive emotional abuse from her husband, and his two sons, via the silent treatment for over 3 years... ALL BECAUSE she didn't want to tell her SO that she didn't have the room to house his sick mother, so she blamed him for it, because it didn't make her look as bad, and made it look like she was doing her a favor by keeping her out of her house. She was completely selfish throughout all of it, she chose her own image over her own son, and allowed him to take the fall. Good on Jake for owning up to it, and apologizing for it, though he should've had the maturity to talk to OP about it in the first place. Furthermore, good on him for divorcing her ass after finding out she lied about HER OWN SON. I can't imagine how guilty he would've felt about treating him the way he did (as well as telling his sons to do the same), when he didn't even do anything wrong. Hell, I would too! I'm sure the other reason for the divorce would be because if she was willing to lie about her own kid, and then allow me, and my own kids to mistreat him just so she could cover her own ass... What else was she willing to lie about? Was probably the question, and the other major reason for why he made the decision to divorce her, ontop of the guilt of having mistreated her kid over that lie. So anyway, if I were OP, I would forgive her, but I would never forget about how she lied about me to her boyfriend (just so she didn't have to tell him she didn't have enough room for his Mother, who is also sick) and allowed me to be mistreated for years, because of it, and how took him telling her to disown me after leaving the house, after they left for a week long road trip, and didn't bother telling me about it until I called her to ask where they had gone, since they couldn't be bothered to tell me about until after, then blames me after they got robbed, even after I told her how pissed I was, and how I was leaving to go to my Dads, but she kept hanging up, and made it clear she didn't want to talk to me, or hear what I had to say (so for that reason, I wouldn't have bothered texting her either). The thing that irks me the most is that it never had to be this way, if she was honest to Jake from the get go, but she was too selfish, and too cowardly to do that, and while I may Forgive her, I would never forget that, and I could never get close to her ever again (at least not for a very long time), after she betrayed me like that, over something that could've been resolved in a much more harmless manner that didn't involve anyone taking the fall, much less ME, her own damn Son. Absolutely Deplorable.
Nah but if i dated a woman and she even THOUGHT about treating my kid like that, instant break up and blocked, no questions asked. Who the fuck lets a complete STRANGER treat their children like that?
Trusted and counted on child to bear with her new husbands and his children's passive aggressive behaviour for years. Trusted and counted on a literal teenager to live alone and keep her house safe? Cuz she claims She sacrificed enough already. Yeah she is manipulative as hell
She left a 16-year-old alone in a house while they slept. Imagine trying to tell a judge that you abandoned your underage child at home while they were asleep. never told them you were going on vacation without them. They ran to their dads for shelter and you believe that they should pay because your house was robbed. I wonder if Mom sacrificed anything to stay in that town? She acts like she sacrificed nothing. I bet the Dad was the only one that gave up careers and maybe love for the son. If you had sacrificed for a child all that time. You would never marry someone who was even slightly hostile toward your kid. How desperate are you to have a man that you don't run when he suggests moving in together after 3 months?
Yeah nah.. The mom is a horrible person. OP owes her nothing, and Jake is a dick to mistreat a teenager on her word. He should of tried to get to know OP himself.
Admittedly, he shouldn't have left the key under the plant pot if the house was going to be empty for a week (I presume that's how the thieves gained entrance) but that's nothing in light of the way the OP was treated for years, all at the instigation of his mother. I'm glad the stepfather apologised and didn't forgive the mother for it, but surely he saw with his own eyes that the OP was always polite and well-behaved. It's a shame the OP didn't tell his father everything sooner but I understand that at that time he still wanted a relationship with the mother who he thought loved him. I just hope the OP is doing well emotionally and mentally now.
Here's the thing why should a MINOR worry over a home and take the spare key himself when he shouldn't be the one looking over a home when he's underaged
@@BernadetteAnneChua Even as a teen I knew not to leave the key outside. I wouldn't have gone to check on the house (not my responsibility) but there's no need to invite thieves in.
Leaves under age child home alone and somehow expects them to what fight off robbers? The fact she didn’t even check to see if OP was okay and alive is just horrible. She cares more about Jake and more about their belongings then her own son. She needs to be charged with child endangerment and child abandonment.
What kind of hirrible dad moves his kids in with a child he believes to be a juvenile delinquent who hates his kids and old people? If Jake really believed all that then he would be knowingly putting his kids in harms way.
if someone ever does something that horrible to you and asks for forgiveness, you say to them "hey, if you were in my position, would YOU forgive you?"
Thats honestly pretty bad advice. 9/10 times they would say yes simply because they want you to forgive them as it's the easiest route back to the status quo.
"trust and Safety" yes leave your son alone in the house by himself because he's supposed to ward off robbers xD. Whether he believed her lies or not, the cognitive incompetence to think the 16 year old boy was somehow terrorizing her boyfriends when he had done literally nothing to him is astounding.
I do have a playlist on youtube called "Holy Shit" where I put story vids like these into it, but only when it gets to a point where I say, "Holy Shit" its very self-explanatory, but might I just add, Holy Shit.
Dude move in with your father and block your mother she ain't worth it, any mother who would be ok with this is wicked and a viper, I bet she is spending his child support money on them, this is why dudes need to be ruthless when being used and abuse same for woman.
Lying about him to her Significant Other about him, because she didn't know how, or didn't want to tell him about how she didn't have enough room to house his sick mother, or something amoung those lines. Absolutely Despicable, and Deplorable.
Who else is sick of the "ungrateful" argument in real life. No matter what you do, you're never treated with respect and when you stand up for yourself or do something wrong, you're "ungrateful". The person has clearly suffered more than you, you can't comprehend how much they've sacrificed. You just have to learn to deal with it, no matter how they act.
It sounds crazy.. biggest problem is communication. If you don't speak up and tell your dad, it will never be cleared up. And that Mother should be held accountable for leaving children alone at home.
