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Mothers, on the other hand, often see things differently. The more zealous the father is about interfering with the awakening of his daughter's sexuality, the more likely it is that the mother will help it blossom.

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* Even if the fearsome <s> crime boss</s> businessman Nogizaka Gento wants his little girl [[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu|Nogizaka Haruka]] to stay "pure" forever, his very "convincing" wife, Akiho, isn't going to have any of that, oh no...

* Compared to her <s> borderline</s> psychotic husband Seto Gozaburo, who has a tendency to send ''assassins'' after his son in law Nagasumi, Mermaid Yakuza Queen Seto Ren of ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' was absolutely delighted when she mistook his drying of her daughter San's fins as public sex ''("My oh my, kids will do it anywhere these days.")'' She provides (not so) helpful love potions to speed up their blossoming marriage along with advice and encouragement, when she's not occasionally trying to seduce the boy herself, that is.

* In ''[[Kare Kano]]'', Yukino's mother Miyako {{spoiler|figures out that she's pregnant before anyone else does (including Soichiro), and acts as her confidante.}} She warns Yukino that when she recently brought up the subject of her relationship with Soichiro to her father Takashi, his reaction was that "Yukino's too young to even kiss." Needless to say, when Soichiro {{spoiler|asks her parents for permission to marry and explains why}}, her father's [[The Tokyo Fireball|less than thrilled]].

* Ichigo of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' has exactly this family. Shintaro's an [[Overprotective Dad]] but Sakura gives her all the help she needs and more.

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6336795/6/A_Mothers_Love One chapter] of the ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' fanfic "A Mother's Love" (dealing primarily with the relationship between Mai and her own daughter, but containing the rest of the family as well) has this. As Ursa (the daughter, named of course after ''the'' [[Mama Bear|Ursa]]) is both the youngest of four and the only girl, Zuko is ''incredibly'' protective of her to the point of severely frightening all her potential boyfriends. Mai reminds him that ''she'' was younger than Ursa when she fell in love with ''him.'' Zuko lightens up a little, but is still extremely protective.

* The [[Trisha Yearwood]] song "She's in Love with the Boy" has a classic example of this in its third verse, where Katie's father is about to unleash his wrath upon Katie's boyfriend Tommy when they come home after midnight. Katie's mother breaks in and reminds her husband that he wasn't that much different from Tommy back in the day, and that they had faced just as much opposition from ''her'' father.

{{quote|''"My daddy said you wasn't worth a lick;

When it came to brains, you had the short end of the stick.

But he was wrong, and honey, you are too.

 

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