Someone on AskReddit asked for parents to share their harrowing experiences with what drove them to disown their children. The resulting stories are pretty dang heartbreaking. Proceed at your own risk. 

Text - She awkwardly joined us for Christmas, and punched my brother in the face during the meal for "humiliating" her oldest son by asking him if he wanted to work at my brother's company for good pay. Her oldest son is in and out of jail, and my brother was trying to help him after his release, but her son said he didn't want a job and got mad. She then called the cops and told them the same brother had illegal guns in his truck, and they came on Christmas night and searched his truck (no guns