'unwanted responsibilities' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to any kind of responsibility that one has but does not want to take on or does not feel that they should have to take on. For example: "I didn't want to take on the unwanted responsibilities of managing the team's project, but I was the only one qualified to do so."
Mr. Crystal, meanwhile, has inherited his father's practice and is up to his neck in unwanted responsibilities.
Are we using meditation as a way of escaping from painful relationships or unwanted responsibilities?
]While staying away from home to avoid his family and its unwanted responsibilities, Miller had become a frequenter of the dance halls that clustered around Times Square.
I feel certain that I can provide the professional and personal characteristics that will relieve the teacher of many unwanted responsibilities, freeing him to better educate the students.
This reduction represents "an important selling point to those non-code faculty who are reluctant to take on the unwanted responsibility of monitoring and policing student cheating" (McCabe et al. 2003, p. 383).
Here's a phrase many of you will remember, probably from the late 1990s: "Yeah, I'd get a cell phone, but I don't want to be on, like, an electronic leash, you know?" People had land lines, pagers, car phones — the pocketable mobile phone was still a luxury and, to some, an unwanted responsibility.
Jails and prisons are some of the worst places to house or attempt to treat people with serious mental illnesses, yet we continue to use them as dumping grounds to hide an unwanted responsibility -- our obligation to address mental health on the community level.
The main theme derives from three themes; (1) meeting a fellow human being, (2) being included or excluded as a parent and (3) bearing unwanted responsibility.
A lack of communication contributes to feelings of loneliness and being abandoned, as well as unwanted responsibility, which adds to the burden of an already difficult situation.
In contrast, lack of communication contributes to feelings of loneliness, abandonment and unwanted responsibility, which adds to the burden of an already difficult situation.
The parents felt that they had to take an unwanted responsibility upon themselves for successful communication with the nursing staff, when they wanted this to be the responsibility of the staff instead.
