A 16-year-old boy with six siblings had a negative reaction to his parents announcing they were expecting another baby: “Not again.”
We never had much space in our house to begin with and now we’re all crammed in,” he writes.
According to the boy, times have been so tough that he got a job at age 13 to pay for items he needed, like a laptop.
The weight of being the oldest is already a lot and I have paid for stuff before,” he writes.
“I babysit so my parents can work nights or get a break.
I take care of the house most days so they can focus on earning money. But it’s a lot and we’re really too big of a family for what we can actually afford.”
After his youngest brother was born, the teen writes that he began to “think about my future.”
“I’d love to learn to cook better and work in a restaurant.
Not college exactly because we could never afford it and my grades aren’t good enough,” he adds.
Cut to August 2024, when his parents “sat us down and told us they’re having another baby and Mom is like 14 weeks pregnant.”
