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{{quote|''"My father and mother just sit around the house all day, seven days a week. My father likes to gamble on baseball, and my mother is busy developing an illegal ROM for cheating on slot machines. My father tells me, 'When I win big, I'll take you to Hawaii.' Then my mother says, 'Your father is not allowed to leave the country, so that will never happen. Ha ha ha.' [[Angst? What Angst?|Our house is always filled with laughter.]]"''|''
There is an intrinsic understanding throughout most of modern Western society that children are to be loved, nurtured, and protected throughout their childhoods by their parents. Parents are viewed as having a responsibility to ensure their child's happiness and welfare, as a necessary component to their healthy development into responsible and mature adults prepared to face the demands of society.
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If it's a [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|non-human species]] abusing its kids, it's [[Abusive Alien Parents]]. When social services ''do'' exist and are useless, it's the [[Department of Child Disservices]]. Often combined with [[Babysitter From Hell]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Genma Saotome, father of [[Ranma ½|Ranma Saotome,]] is quite possibly the king of this trope—a selfish and casually abusive father whose antics are [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|played for humor]] despite having essentially ruined his son's life at every possible opportunity.That Ranma hasn't cracked and murdered his dad by now, or at least beaten some sense into him, makes him a possible candidate for sainthood. Of course, Ranma being a martial artist, he's ''tried'' [[Calling the Old Man Out|beating sense into Genma's thick head]], but it never seems to take.
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