Children living with stepparents have become quite common in America. Research shows that around 30% of kids will live with a stepparent until they reach adulthood. Some find it easy, others may have a harder time, but one thing is for sure: the biological parent turning the child against the step family is never good. When this mother turned her daughter into a spy, a step-uncle decided he didn’t want to babysit her anymore....

A couple is being sued by alleged squatters who they say unlawfully occupied their $930,000 duplex in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The suit has led Juliya Fulman and her husband, Denis Kurlyand, to spend over $4,000 in legal bills, the New York Post reports. “You can’t really even blame them in a way because it’s handed to them on a silver platter,” Kurlyand said of the “opportunists.” Homeowners in Queens, NY, were sued by alleged squatters after their $930,000 home was occupied....

Children should be able to trust their parents more than anyone else in the world. Your mom and dad are always supposed to be there for you, whether you’re having the best or worst day of your life. But the older one woman gets, the more she becomes suspicious of the stories she’s been told by her mother. That’s why she’s finally decided that it’s time to get a DNA test done, against her mom’s wishes....

Many are worried about staying single for too long after a breakup, perhaps never being in a long-term relationship , or having no friends available to go for a pint with on a Friday evening. We have this issue rooted in our society that we feel less of a person if we don’t have a partner or that one friend who is always just one call away. But that’s so, so far away from the truth....

So you’ve decided to leave your ordinary life and take up the mantle of a ninja. Good for you! But before getting too deep into your new existence, you should learn a lesson or two from some of the best ninjas ever, all coming from the popular universe of Naruto ! Jam-packed with intense battle scenes and awesome lines, there’s no doubt Naruto has impacted that part of the anime community who fancy shounen anime....

The late Nelson Mandela, the Father of the Nation of South Africa, was a president, activist, and to this day is a well-known persona to many. However, although everyone knows his name, not everyone knows about the great deeds he had accomplished in his life. The former president of South Africa left a legacy of peace and justice after serving 27 years in prison and dedicating his life to upholding the civil rights of black South Africans....

There are so many fake friends and fake people quotes on the internet that it appears to be a problem everyone has faced at least once. And the worst part? It’s not usually something one can prevent. There might be red flags and telltale signs of a fake friend and a toxic relationship. Still, these are easy to overlook. When we have genuine feelings for a person, we tend to see past the ‘bad....

You’d think inventing something new would be a good thing, but for some, it turned out to be deadly. It’s wild to imagine that the very thing they spent time creating ended up being their downfall. One inventor accidentally dying because of their own invention might seem like a freak accident. But the fact that there are many of these stories? That’s where it gets really strange. Here are 20 inventors whose own creations ended up costing them their lives....

According to Alex Lickerman, M.D., who is the author of The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self , control over our lives is something we all want, but in a universe in which everything is mutually interdependent, none of us entirely have it over anything, including, much of the time, ourselves. Rather, what we all have in abundance is influence: the closer personally and physically others are to us, the greater our influence over them, and vice versa....

Some believe that geography is boring or ‘dry’, and think that looking at a map will never catch their interest. Well, chances are that their mindset can be changed with the maps on today’s list. Created by the mastermind behind the ‘ Very Useful Maps ’ account, these images are not your regular markers of geographic areas; they are mirrors of cultural phenomena, eating habits, all things nature, and so much more, so scroll down to find them and see for yourself just how amusing and fun geography can be....

To this day, when we talk about romance and beautiful, sublime love, we often remember the Renaissance, gallant chevaliers, ready to cross swords for the honor of the Beautiful Lady, performing serenades under the balcony of the mistress of their heart… Stop! Stop, stop stop! So we really think that putting a foot of iron into another person’s belly just to impress our crush is that damn romantic? Or throwing stones at the windows of a sleeping girl so that she, sleep-deprived and angry, will listen to us in a bad voice yelling a poorly rhymed song about unearthly love - is that beautiful?...

Elisabeth Van Aalderen had a lot going for her. After getting her diploma from the Utrecht School of Arts, she applied to the photography department of the Fotovakschool in Amsterdam. Since then, she has worked in the fashion industry as a stylist and art director but eventually quit her job to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional photographer. However, about 8 years ago, when she was 25, something came up that tried to slow Elisabeth down....

There’s one thing that is almost impossible to describe. Whenever we want to share it with you, we feel that there are not enough synonyms for cute and adorable to even get close in defining it. And as much as we try, we just ‘awww’ and ‘ooooh’ throughout the whole process. And we’re guessing that by now you know what we are talking about. Yep, the most adorable, crazy cute puppies....

Whoever said time-travelling is impossible is likely forgetting about the power of photographs . These still images represent a moment in time when a person who would make a mark in human history was still walking this Earth. This list features some of them. We at Bored Panda have compiled some never-before-seen pictures of some of the most renowned historical figures . Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vincent Van Gogh are just some of the biggest names on here, all of which are a must-see....

What started as a crazy idea turned into 8,552 kilometers (5,314 miles) of faith, asphalt, breakdowns, kindness, and people we’ll never forget. In the summer of 2025, we left Poland on two aging Harley-Davidsons, not as professional adventurers or record chasers, but as two teachers, parents, and riders who couldn’t stay indifferent. Our goal was simple and painfully important: to give hope to one brave boy fighting cancer. Michał Milczarek is a 15-year-old boy from Poland, who’s been fighting neuroblastoma, a cruel and relentless cancer, for seven years....

In this age, when people so easily share selfies worldwide via social media, the network is overload by pictures, but among them, you can find real pearls. Ballet dancer Mickael Jou is a unique self-portraitist. He decided to combine photography and dance moves together, because of his passion for these artistic fields. The results are improvised yet absolutely stunning pictures. The difference between this professional dancer and the others is an incredible amount of work inserted into his self-portraits....

DANCERS & DOGS started out as a wildly random idea one day in early 2017. St. Louis based professional photographers Kelly Pratt & Ian Kreidich, a husband-and-wife team who work with the Saint Louis Ballet along with professional dancers around the country, had a vision: “What if we took pictures of ballet dancers, with dogs?” On paper, it was a strange concept and didn’t make sense. Ballet is often seen as stuffy, moody, or unapproachable and dogs are known to be inherently playful, happy, and goofy....

Obama started his tradition of writing up yearly summer reading lists in 2009, only missing a couple of years while he was in the White House, but he’s had a bit more time to spend reading in recent years and has even branched out into recommending films as well. His justification for only including the few TV series that he considers “as powerful as movies” tells us that he probably doesn’t have a binge-watching habit, though....

Most of us take color for granted. It’s one of the most important features we use to describe how things look, but you’ll probably go blank if you try to describe what makes something green. If you’ve ever had that classic debate about whether “my red is your red”, you’ve probably realized that when you try to describe something from your own visual perception, any comparison you make is… also from your visual perception....

It can be really hard to find true friends who will have our back through all the milestones, as well as bad days. Many times, life also throws some fake ones at us, and sometimes their true colors show and they reveal themselves. This woman was stuck with such a “friend” who agreed to be her maid of honor, but very reluctantly. Things got tense after the groom called her out for putting no effort into her duties to the bride ....