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'''Dick''': Because it's important that you experience the humiliation of adolescent boys at the hands of bitter adults trying to re-write the failures of their youth. It'll be fun! }}

* Averted for the most part on ''[[Make It or Break It]]''. Kelly's mom, Kaylie's father, and Lauren's father fit this trope, but the other parents of the main cast are properly supportive without being pushy.

=== Music ===

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=== Theater ===

* ''[[Gypsy]]'' is the '''epitome''' of this trope. ~~Mama Rose~~ obsessively worked her two daughters into her vaudeville acts, highlighting Baby June, who ended up running away and eloping, and downplaying Louise, who ended up becoming more successful than her sister ~~and~~ ~~becoming~~ Gypsy Rose Lee. Mama Rose went as far as to have multiple 10th birthday parties to try to trick her daughters into thinking they were indefinitely 10 years old so she could continue to milk them for all they were worth. The worst part? She was a real person.

* ''[[Gypsy]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Mama Rose is the '''epitome''' of this trope. She obsessively worked her two daughters into her vaudeville acts, highlighting Baby June (who ended up running away and eloping) and downplaying Louise (who ended up becoming more successful than her sister as the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee). Mama Rose went as far as to have multiple 10th birthday parties to try to trick her daughters into thinking they were indefinitely 10 years old so she could continue to milk them for all they were worth. The worst part? She was a real person.

* Mrs. Walker from ''[[Once in a Lifetime]]'' has elements of this, even though she causes relatively little harm in the course of her championing her daughter Susan.

* [[Phantom of the Opera|Madame Giry]] becomes one for Meg in ''Love Never Dies''

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* Mexican singer [[wikipedia:Luis Miguel|Luis Miguel]]'s father and manager, Luisito Rey. Guy was very bent into making his precocious kid a star, and you can argue he suceeded... only for Luis Miguel to dump him when he got of age just to scape his incredibly contolling ways.

* The Shaggs, a band comprised of three sisters, came into existence due to a prophecy their father believed that they would form a popular music group. As soon as they were old enough, he pulled them out of school and bought them instruments and lessons, and forced them into gigs and the studio from 1968 until his death in 1975. Despite his efforts, the band would go down in history as ''legendarily'' [[So Bad It's Good]].

* Taylor Momsen has [http://www.popeater.com/2010/11/12/taylor-momsen-childhood/ accused her parents] of being this. This may explain her transformation from a [[Gossip Girl|teen soap]] star to a raunchy, scantily-clad rock frontwoman [[Jail Bait|before she turned 18]].

* [[Taylor Momsen]] has [http://www.popeater.com/2010/11/12/taylor-momsen-childhood/ accused her parents] of being this. This may explain her transformation from a [[Gossip Girl|teen soap]] star to a raunchy, scantily-clad rock frontwoman [[Jail Bait|before she turned 18]].

* Pop girl group Destinee & Paris' mother is like this. The main reason they became Destinee & Paris was that their mother suffocated the previous members of their rock band (Ariel and then Sarah, who lasted less than half a year as the Clique Girlz) and they were forced into it after all the bad publicity. (Ariel went on to name her next band NMD—No More Drama—as a [[Take That]].) When the two were featured on the [[E!]]! reality show ''The Dance Scene'', their mother continuously told everyone around them they weren't ready to perform on the night of the performance despite Laurieann Gibson (choreographer for [[Lady Gaga]]) saying they were great. Laurieann dropped them as clients not long after.