Everyone with younger siblings has been asked whether they’d rather have a brother or a sister. I’m the younger sister, so that never really happened to me, but I’m aware that it’s almost a rite of passage for any older sibling.
Normally, you’d assume parents would take the answers lightheartedly and with a grain of salt — after all, kids can’t choose their siblings’ gender or control how DNA works. But in today’s story, that wasn’t the case. The parents actually shamed their son to the point that it caused some (almost) irreparable damage to his relationship with his siblings. Yes, it’s that crazy.
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