Parenting isn’t easy.

Sometimes you have to make decision that really hurt your heart, but you feel like are best for your children in the long run.

Find out how these parents had to make a hard choice for their kids, and whether or not the people in their lives agree with it.

The details are below!

AITA for kicking our adult stepdaughter out of the home?

Are we (my husband, 44M, and I, 45F) TA’s for kicking out our oldest child (my stepdaughter, his BD, 21F)?

My husband has always had full custody of his daughter.

We got together when she was 17 months old, and her visitations with bio mom were spotty at best, and often nonexistent when she was growing up.

She was a handful…

From a very young age, she exhibited signs of mental illness, which we tried to get her help for over and over.

Stealing from us turned into shoplifting, lying to us (about literally EVERYTHING, even when there was no point in it) turned into pathological lying – even to teachers, counselors, therapists, friends and friends’ parents.

She refused to comply…

Her behavior out of the home was stellar; inside our walls, she refused to follow rules, ignored boundaries, called both of names, or just refused to speak to us.

She began running away whenever we tried to enforce rules or deliver consequences for breaking them.

Ex: If we took away wifi access as punishment, she would just leave and not come home for days/weeks on end.

She would bring and smoke drugs inside our home.

She also turned brutally against them.

Then, she began telling the school and her friend’s/boyfriend’s parents that we would withhold food and medication from her (not true), and threatening to call CAS on us.

Eventually, she aged out of being able to use CAS against us for herself, and started threatening to call them on behalf of our oldest son.

She had no mercy for the half-sibling.

He has been diagnosed with ADHD and autism, and is on meds for the adhd.

She started claiming that we’re “just sedating him to make him easier to deal with,” and telling him not to take his meds.

At that point, my husband kicked her out.

Not on the streets, her friend’s mom allowed her to stay there.

But we decided that it’s one thing to live with her abusive nature and deal with it as best we could, but another thing to allow her to turn it on her siblings.

They had to do what they had to do.

It was a heartbreaking decision, but we felt it was necessary.

So, are we the AH?

Being parents to difficult children can surely be a challenge!

Let’s find out if the Reddit community thinks these parents did the right thing.

This user knows the family is better off without the step daughter.

This user knows these parents have done enough.

Makes sense, this person believes this child is the problem.

This user states it simple and clear.

Exactly! taking care of the other kids is more important right now!

Maybe the girl will realize everything the parents ever did for her.

This is truly heartbreaking.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.