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== Webcomics ==
* Riley's dad in ''[[Angel Moxie]]'' takes this to a surreal degree.
* Jodie's mother in ''[[Loserz]]'', as seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213173034/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/98 here].
* Bruno's parents in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''. They were so caught up in watching TV that they didn't even realise Bruno (a carnivorous wolf) became a herbivore-or that they gave ''permission'' for him to have stomach implant surgery.
* [[A Magical Roommate|Duchess Lettie]] actively deludes herself about practically everything, attempting to retreat into the fantasy world she believes magic users to live in. Aylia, her elder daughter, finally stuck it to her when she legally became an adult by out and out walking away from her plans... and she STILL thought she could maintain some level of control!
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== Real Life ==
* Christiane F [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_F.*\]{{Dead link}} was addicted to Heroin by the age of 13, never mind what she had to do to get the money for the drugs. Her mother took over a year to notice. After she was discovered, quit, got addicted again, quit again and went to live with her father, she was soon re-addicted and HE didn't notice either.
** Admittedly, at this time drugs from marijuana to heroin were something many people didn't even know it existed, let alone how to recognize someone under its influence, let alone squared to know what to do then.
** Very true. And there are sections where the mother is interviewed where she said how helpless she felt/was. However, things started when Christiane and her friend went out clubbing all night telling each parent they were sleeping over at each others'. That is the sort of thing a parent should keep track of (I'll just phone up your friends' mum to thank her for looking after you). And her father's strategy to keep Christane off drugs was to give her a responsibility (looking after pigeons) that wouldn't allow her the time to scrounge drugs/money for drugs. Yet he seemed not to check whether or not the pigeons were actually being taken care of (they weren't).
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