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* [[Britney Spears]]' mother Lynne pushed her and her sister Jamie Lynn to become stars. [[Break the Cutie|You know how this ended
* Joe Simpson, father of [[Jessica Simpson|Jessica]] and [[Ashlee Simpson|Ashlee]]. Nick Lachey, Jessica's former husband, implied that the meddling of his father-in-law over her career and life played no small role in their eventual breakup and divorce.
* [[Michael Jackson|Joe]] [[Janet Jackson|Jackson]] really, really didn't want [[The Jackson 5ive|his kids]] to become criminals on the streets of Gary, Indiana. He probably could have found a better way to do this, however. All the Jackson children have complained about their father being openly abusive whenever they didn't perform or rehearse to his standards, and discouraged them from having any interests outside show business.
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* [[Beyoncé]]'s father, Mathew Knowles, has been pointed as the reason behind the dissolution of his daughter's previous group, [[Destiny's Child]], due to a mix of being a stage dad and having incredibly bad business sense. Beyoncé herself has had a very tenuous relationship with him since she began her solo career.
* [[Backstreet Boys|Nick]] and Aaron Carter's careers were ruined by their stage parents, who blew their earnings and settled them in profound debt. Nick managed to cut them off and bounced back with his group, but Aaron, who has a solo career and acquired a drug problem in the road, was forced to cut off his parents at 18 before he was completely drained up, and still he had to file bankruptcy in 2013 at age 25. The same parents tried to push out a singing career for Nick and Aaron's sister Leslie, without any success.
* Endemic in the [[Classical Music]] world, where any parent who notices their children can press piano keys or play some instrument with any accuracy immediately tries to promote them as "young prodigies", to the extent that most parentswho can make their children to take piano classes when they are toddlers take the chance, even if there is no actual expectation of statehood or talent, because everyone in that camp, prodigy or not, begin ''just that young'' and beginning later even when talented puts them in disadvantage. It has come to the point that in many music schools some kind of practices (like making children sing opera, a genre that is taxing to even adult larynxes) are actively discouraged despite the parents' protests in order to protect the child's future career.
** If you search on the classic composers between the XVIII and XIX centuries you can find that a number of them began as young prodigies, pushed into playing and singing at an early age at their parent wishes. The most archetypal example is [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] and his sister Maria Anna touring Europe as a piano and violin duet under their (also a renowned musician) father Leonard's tutelage. In fact, the "Child Prodigy" trope is so ubiquitous that it comes as a surprise that some famous composers like Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms didn't begin to write music until their middle age (Mozart himself didn't hit his stride until his twenties).
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