Abusive Parents: Difference between revisions

This includes parents who are emotionally, physically, or mentally abusive, or who neglectfully allow their children to be abused by others if they don't abuse the child themselves; sexual abuse is typically treated as [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|a special kind of evil]] and thus not entirely in the same category as the other types of abuse. Sometimes, the abuse at the hands of their parents or others end up as the [[Freudian Excuse]] for a villain (or even worse, generates a villain who has [[Mommy Issues]]), but sometimes, the character manages to not grow up broken, bitter, and hateful, and ends up being [[Character Development|a different and better person]] than the upbringing would incline one to think.

 

 

Sometimes, a parent will go as far as to kill the child in question, in which case this is [[Offing the Offspring]]. In other cases, the parent's abuse occasionally drives the offspring to kill ''them'', usually becoming a [[Self-Made Orphan]] in the process.