Nosy Mother Terrorizes Family With Ancestry Tests, Crosses A Line

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to know where you or your family members come from. Today, that’s very easy with at-home testing kits like AncestryDNA. Over 18 million people have used the platform to find their roots. But what about the times when someone submits a child’s DNA without the parent’s consent?

That’s exactly what happened to this mom whose mother took her grandchild to take an ancestry test but wanted it to be a secret. The mom, of course, found out and was so livid that she started considering reporting her own mother. But first, she asked the Internet to weigh in: should she go scorched earth on her mother or just let it go?

A woman took her grandchild to take an ancestry DNA test without the mother’s consent

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After she found out, she considered cutting ties with her mother and even reporting her

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“My mother just wants to gossip about tragic [passings] and kissing cousins,” the mom added in an update

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People gave the mom advice about how to remove her child’s information from the database

The commenters thought the grandma seriously messed up: “I’d file a police report”

Others urged the mom to take this matter seriously and go to the authorities ASAP