26-year-old refuses to babysit his older brother’s kids after he dumps them on his porch unannounced: ‘He [says] I should be grateful that he trusts me’

Family is family and all that, but at some point you just gotta put your foot down, don't you?

Because family has a way of turning one sibling's success into a debt that everyone else feels entitled to collect. 

In this family, the child who figured life out becomes the safety net for the one who didn't, and the person who, being a safety net, keeps catching everyone else ends up being called selfish for not wanting to be stretched even thinner.

If you've met people in your life, or even been on Reddit at some point, you already know favoritism isn't rare. Quite the opposite, favoritism plays out in households everywhere. One kid gets praised for showing up, gets participation trophies all the time, while the other gets ignored for actually achieving anything.