This Dad Rejects His MAGA Family’s Request to Strip His Kids of Financial Aid for Refusing to Attend the Holidays

The holidays are sure to be challenging this year following one of the most divisive presidential elections in history. Recently, his Trump-voting family pressured his father to remove his liberal children because they refuse to attend the holidays this year.

Here’s the full story from The_Dudes_Dudes: “I have two daughters, both in college. We have a family group chat with my parents, all my siblings, and all the grandchildren. All my parents and siblings are Trump voters/supporters and don’t be shy about it.”

“Most family meetings come down to arguments between them and me. I grew up on this shit show. My children are not. After the election, my children silently left the group chat.”

“One of my two daughters is a lesbian. When my mother asked the two girls about this, they told my mother that they would no longer attend any family events, including Christmas and Thanksgiving. This created a shit show of epic proportions in the family chat.” “

“My parents and siblings are furious. I think it’s important to say that I pay for my child’s college tuition, health insurance, car insurance, food and gas. I pay for their plane tickets when they get home. They don’t work.” My agreement with them was that if they went to school and got good grades, I would pay if I could. My mom wants me to keep them away until they come over for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I said no.

“I support my children and they are adults. I won’t force them to make choices they don’t want to make. My siblings say I’m an asshole and I’m dividing the family. Honestly, I never force them to make choices they don’t want to make. I thought I would end up in such a crazy situation, but here we are, Reddit, am I an asshole?”

People in the comments supported the dad 100% for standing up for his daughters. “The fact that your mother wants to financially force your children to endure abuse is extremely revealing. Not an asshole, great job protecting your kids,” Kerbsnuglin wrote.

“Not an asshole. At all. Voting has consequences, and this is one of them,” agreed abritinthebay.

“Your parents and siblings have chosen a bully who poses a real threat to both of your daughters,” FutureVarious9495.

“His (Trump’s) view of the LGBTQ+ community is evil and their reproductive rights are another big issue that threatens them both.”

theGnartist advocated for fathers to spend the holidays with their daughters rather than with the rest of the family. “Choose your children. If I were you, not only would I NOT try to force my children to come, but I would also go to my daughters and spend this time with them.”

“You yourself said that your family was toxic long before Trump. Break this cycle, support your children and remove these toxic people from your life.”

Eloni16 shared that they had a similar experience with their own children during the holidays.

“I can confirm that I am in a similar situation. My in-laws are Trump supporters. The day after the election, my oldest told me that they would not be attending family gatherings where their grandparents would be. The knee-jerk reaction was to argue that we should “stay and fight.” But they rightly noted that it was not their responsibility to teach their grandparents basic human decency. They should not be humiliated by ridiculing arguments about what rights they deserve.”

Ok-Grocery-6590, an anti-Trump voter, said their family faced a similar problem, refusing to discuss politics at all during the holidays.

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