Co-parenting can be a huge challenge for divorced parents, especially when they have radically different visions when it comes to how their children should behave.

The ex-partners in this story are no exception.

When their teenage daughter’s new obsession gets a little out of hand, their attitudes are very different.

For the father, it’s whatever makes his daughter happy; the mom however, insists they put a stop to it.

Read on to find out what the daughter did to throw the friction between them into overdrive.

AITA for letting my daughter get the nail design she wants?

I am a 33-year-old father of a 15 year old daughter.

She lives with me primarily and goes to her mother’s house every other weekend.

Now, my daughter has an obsession with clowns: like posters everywhere, custom clown suits, horns, balloon animals (so many balloon animals). The whole shabang.

Her mother (who is 36) hates clowns. She’s extremely religious and thinks that clowns are evil because of the media.

Let’s see how this clown drama escalated.

Her mom has been trying to change her interest for a while now, and even asked me to stop her from buying more stuff.

But it makes her happy, so why would I?

Yesterday my daughter went to go get her nails done, and obviously got a circus design.

And this was just the start of their problems.

We’re on a road trip at the moment, and her mother asked if she’d eaten yet.

So my daughter she sent her mom a picture of her holding a McGriddle, in which the design of her nails was visible.

Her mom is now cussing me out about us not being a “united front” and how easy it is to just “tell her no?”

But I still see no reason to when she happy and not hurting anyone. As far as I’m concerned, until the day she hurts someone she can keep the clowns.

AITA?

This guy seems like a great dad.

All the more so since he’s sticking up for his daughter in the face of his controlling ex.

She can hate clowns all she likes, but that’s no reason for their daughter to hate them.

Let’s see what Reddit thought about this.

This Redditor praised his fatherly choices.

And others pointed out that the mom’s religion only seems to go so far.

While this religious mom called out the girl’s mom.

Good dad award.

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.