Dad shares conflict about daughter being a proud sex worker

This father, however, feels disappointed with the path his grown-up daughter has taken in life, which has caused conflict between the family.

Posting on Reddit’s ‘Am I the Asshole?’ forum, where people seek perspectives on contenious situations, he explained that he has three children, aged 33, 30 and 27.

The children’s mother left when they were young, leaving the dad to look after them as a single parent and take on two jobs to support them.

Although the eldest two became a teacher and firefighter respectively, the youngest – Abby – dropped out of an engineering degree to pursue sex work.

The dad said he was initially ‘shocked’ to hear of the career choice and ‘begged her to reconsider but she refused to listen’. He later said he’d always love his daughter but didn’t wish to hear any details about the job.

A few years has passed since then – and Abby has apparently ‘made quite a bit of money’ in the sex industry. But the topic was broached once again at a family party celebrating the man’s oldest daughter’s promotion, where he gave a speech saying he ‘was proud of her for being successful in her career.’

On the drive home, Abby asked her father why he never tells people that he’s proud of her too, a question he initially refused to answer.

After losing his cool, the dad told her in a raised voice: ‘I don’t approve of your job. I don’t want to hear about it and I’m not going to tell people I’m proud that my daughter has sex with men for money.’

Abby began to cry and ran to her room when they arrived home, yet the argument continued the next day when the single parent attempted to say sorry.

‘I apologised to her for raising my voice and making her cry but I still stood firm that I wasn’t going to lie to myself, to her or to anyone else that I’m proud of the work she’s doing,’ he said. ‘She called me an asshole and slammed the door in my face.’