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'My nephew is a rotten apple - what's my obligation?'

JEDI

JEDI

Lifer
CNN

'My brother's boy was a decent kid until he got to high school. Now he's always getting into trouble - trouble that's been costing his parents a small fortune to bail him out of.

They believe a boarding school will straighten him out, but they can't afford one, so they've asked my wife and me to help. That would mean using some of the money we've been saving to send our daughter to college, and my wife says this would be favoring a rotten apple at the expense of our good child. '

WTF?!

it would never even enter my mind to sacrifice my daughter's future for a spoiled kid that's not mine.

Wow............................
 
HELL NO!

If they have money to spare, then ya, I dont see the problem helping out a family member, but having to dip into their daughters college fund, no way.
 
Let the little ****** finish high school then pack him away to the army or marines. Basic training + a trip or two to Iraq will do more for him than an expensive boarding school.
 
don't give the rotten nephew a single cent. his disapline is his parent's problem not yours. i aree with Wapp. first, tell them not to bail him out so quickly. let him rot in jail for a couple of month and then send him to the army. there he will learn disapline. enough said.
 
Tell your nephew to start smoking pot.

his disapline is his parent's problem not yours

if you dont have the moeny then dont do it. if you do though you should...

It's not his nephew. It's some random person in a CNN article.
 
No fvcking way.

The big news in this story is that there's apparently a shame vaccine now available. Because I don't see any other way that the spoiled kids parents could have even asked for that money without dying from shame.
 
Does Insurance ever cover this type of thing? I know a family who sent their daughter to Utah, to sober up and straighten out, an its very expensive, but i believe their insurance covers it.
 
Originally posted by: allisolm
Tell your nephew to start smoking pot.

his disapline is his parent's problem not yours

if you dont have the moeny then dont do it. if you do though you should...

It's not his nephew. It's some random person in a CNN article.
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Well in that case he should definately help him out. Let's have an ATOT bake sale.

 
Originally posted by: ramirez
Tell your nephew to start smoking pot. That will calm him down and keep him out of trouble.
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No. You tell him to smoke pot, plant some crack on him, call the cops.

WIN WIN 😀
 
He's family - of course you help out. But there's other ways of helping than an expensive boarding school. You can, for example, find a cheap boarding school. Or offer to help him find a summer job to pay for the thing. Or, you offer to have him live with you so that you can straighten him out. Or, you take notes about the situation and write a really nasty but funny tell-all book, because this sounds like a potentially explosive situation.

I assume you're talking about a real, educational boarding school and not one of those programs that "fixes" kids, usually with a big outdoor component - those are really popular here in my expensive suburb, and are mainly very very expensive, and a waste of time - when they're not dangerous.

Good luck, and quickly tie up your daughter's school fund in a trust or something so that you can very honestly say "I'm not financially prepared to do this right now".
 
Originally posted by: Wapp
Let the little ****** finish high school then pack him away to the army or marines. Basic training + a trip or two to Iraq will do more for him than an expensive boarding school.
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:thumbsup:
 
LOL @ the answer in the link.

That is the wishy-washiest non-answer I've ever read in an advice column. :laugh: The answer is not only 'No', but 'Hell no!.' Why would anyone even consider such a thing?

 
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