Hands-Off Parenting: Difference between revisions

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See also [[Adults Are Useless]], [[Disappeared Dad]], [[Missing Mom]], [[When You Coming Home, Dad?]], [[Free-Range Children]], and [[Parental Abandonment]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

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* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'': Key'lehr being the closest thing a half-Klingon get to this explains why Alexander, Worf and Key'lehr's son, didn't pick up on Klingon values as a child.

* In ''[[iCarly]]'' Carly's father is in the military (so a partial aversion) and so is always away, her mother is never mentioned and adult brother is an [[Adult Child]]. Freddie's mom however goes to the opposite extreme.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Were Willow Rosenberg's parents ''ever'' home, except when it was convenient for the plot - like the time Willow's mom and the other parents nearly burned Willow and Amy at the stake?

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Were Willow Rosenberg's parents ''ever'' home, except when it was convenient for the plot - like the time Willow's mom and the other parents nearly burned Willow and Amy at the stake? Her mother basically seems to be far more interested in ''studying'' teenagers than actually interacting with her teenage daughter. She doesn't know Willow's best friends' names, views Willow as a demographic rather than an individual, and is surprised to see Willow's change of hairstyle when it's been that way for months. All we know about her father is that his name is Ira and he won't let her watch ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]'' because [[Informed Judaism|they're Jewish]].

Her mother basically seems to be far more interested in studying teenagers than actually interacting with her teenage daughter. She doesn't know Willow's best friends' names, views Willow as a demographic rather than an individual, and is surprised to see Willow's change of hairstyle when it's been that way for months. All we know about her father is that his name is Ira and he won't let her watch the Charlie Brown Christmas special ([[Informed Judaism|they're Jewish]]).

* Nearly all of the parents in ''[[The Secret Life of the American Teenager]]'' in that they hardly ever give their kids any rules to follow, and enforce them even less.

* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' Lindsay and Tobias are sufficiently oblivious that Maeby got a job as a studio executive and produced several movies without them even noticing. One time when feeling neglected she tried to make them think she was running away, and was frustrated when she couldn't get them to realize. The much more controlling Michael tries to get Lindsay to pay more attention, but she maintains that he's stifling his son (she may have a point) and refuses to get involved unless forced to. At one point she decided she had to punish her for her failing grades, and was disappointed this involved more than ''telling her'' she was punished.