"A 30-year-old man court-ordered to vacate his parents' home on Tuesday said he should be given more time to leave because of how much his parents "harassed" him about moving out.
Michael Rotondo, of Camillus, New York, had been living rent-free in his parents' Syracuse-area home for eight years when a State Supreme Court judge ruled on Tuesday in his parents’ favor, ordering him to move out.
Rotondo, who plans to appeal the decision, said he stopped speaking to his parents when they "alluded" to wanting him to leave the house in October, just one month after he lost custody and visitation rights of his son.
"I'm not bothering them by living here," Michael Rotondo said in an interview with ABC News' "Good Morning America." "It's little to no cost to them, and considering how much they've harassed me, I think it's the least that they should be required to do, which is just let me hang here a bit longer and use their hot water and electricity.""
By the end of October, Michael Rotondo said his parents were demanding he get a full-time job, health insurance and sessions with a therapist, but he said he "didn't need any of those things."
"My parents alluded to the fact that they no longer wanted me living in the house, and I was devastated from the loss, and not seeing my son anymore," Rotondo said. "After that, I was like, 'I’m done with you guys.'"
Mark and Christina Rotondo said they gave their son multiple notices to vacate and even offered him money to help him find a place of his own.
Michael Rotondo admitted that he accepted the money, but used it for "other things."
"I took it but with consideration for my plans, and how my finances interacted with those plans, I did use the money for other things, but I don’t regret that," he said. "I would have preferred to have kept the money and given it back to them ... but I had to use it, and that's just how it is."
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THIS is fucking news these days? Major network news, no less.
Agreed. Rotten parents should learn to show some respect to their children. Unbelievable sense of entitlement.
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Tossed out on his ear just because he hasn’t worked in a little while
Agreed. Rotten parents should learn to show some respect to their children. Unbelievable sense of entitlement.
Exactly. You bring a kid in the world, you are responsible for taking care of him.
Sounds to me like he has an anxiety disorder that prevents him from working. And these greedy parents are throwing him out. Why not pay for him to get the help he needs?
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Tossed out on his ear just because he hasn’t worked in a little while
Agreed. Rotten parents should learn to show some respect to their children. Unbelievable sense of entitlement.
Exactly. You bring a kid in the world, you are responsible for taking care of him.
Sounds to me like he has an anxiety disorder that prevents him from working. And these greedy parents are throwing him out. Why not pay for him to get the help he needs?
Sounds like they didn't even consider the obvious solution - Mama and Poppop buy a new house to move into, and let their son stay where he is and have his privacy. Then it's just on Mom to swing by each morning to make him breakfast and do laundry.
I don’t blame the parents at all. They give their kid rent money and he uses it on some undefined purpose probably hookers and blow
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Tossed out on his ear just because he hasn’t worked in a little while
Agreed. Rotten parents should learn to show some respect to their children. Unbelievable sense of entitlement.
Exactly. You bring a kid in the world, you are responsible for taking care of him.
Sounds to me like he has an anxiety disorder that prevents him from working. And these greedy parents are throwing him out. Why not pay for him to get the help he needs?
Not sure if serious....
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Fuck. What's next, banning the term "best friend" in schools because it fosters emotional distress that might lead to lethargy and mooching??
Lost his custody rights... Gee, what a surprise! I'm sure his IOUs for child support showed good faith, what a mean judge!
It's the parent's fault for not buying condoms for him.
Fuck. What's next, banning the term "best friend" in schools because it fosters emotional distress that might lead to lethargy and mooching??
Well, in a way they're right. The logical argument is the guy's a hump - but his parents raised him to be a hump, so why should he be society's problem?
I'm kidding of course, but if I were that father that entire debacle would have included me reading a statement to be entered to the record on how massive a disappointment he was. Yeah, you got kicked in the ass - boo hoo, you had your time to sulk, now it's time to get your lazy ass back to work.
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are being serious, you're actually siding with the son??
Fuck. What's next, banning the term "best friend" in schools because it fosters emotional distress that might lead to lethargy and mooching??
Well, in a way they're right. The logical argument is the guy's a hump - but his parents raised him to be a hump, so why should he be society's problem?
I'm kidding of course, but if I were that father that entire debacle would have included me reading a statement to be entered to the record on how massive a disappointment he was. Yeah, you got kicked in the ass - boo hoo, you had your time to sulk, now it's time to get your lazy ass back to work.
Give him a financial settlement if he promises not to tell anyone he's your son.
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THIS is fucking news these days? Major network news, no less.
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--you seem unfamiliar with Good Morning America
Dude - get out as fast as you can. Your dad is clearly a creepy old pervert. Your mom is also hopeless and is apparently under some kind of hypnotic jedi-mind power trick thing by your evil dad.
He won't excuse you? Seriously?
And the judge told you to get out, but that's just ridiculous. You have rights.
I know the feeling
lol
I know the feeling
Probably the least shocking post in this entire thread.
Simos don't steal from their parents, they steal from the elderly.
Then our daughter came along and shot that idea all to hell.
There are a lot of things out of parents control, including genetics. Disorders like ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder) for example.
Yes, it's possible they spoiled him and didn't force him to be responsible.
But for all we know, they've been fighting (providing positive and negative reinforcement, etc.) with the kid since he was 7 to do his homework, chores, etc.