History Main / AlcoholicParent

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': in "[[ Recap/MidsomerMurdersS20E1The Ghost of Causton Abbey]]", Emani makes beer but also drinks far too much. Her alcoholism means she's neglecting her step-children and abusing her husband. This is resulting in the kids wetting the bed and being emotionally abused. Jenny reveals her mother was also an alcoholic parent.

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell Mark Russell]] reveals that in the aftermath of his son Andrew's [[OutlivingOnesOffspring death]], he turned to drinking as a way of coping for a time, and he expresses profuse shame that his surviving child Madison had to see him like that.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E12HerPilgrimSoulIOfNewton Her Pilgrim Soul]]", Dr. Kevin Drayton tells Nola Granville that his wife Carol's mother was an alcoholic and that she wants to have children so that she can be the kind of mother that she never had herself. Hearing about Nola's difficult childhood with her FantasyForbiddingFather allows Kevin to understand how Carol feels for the first time.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'', Buggs's DisappearedDad was apparently an alcoholic, judging by how Buggs's reaction upon being given a breathalyser is to fondly reminisce about how his mother would make his father use one.

* On ''Series/{{Castle}}'', Beckett's father fell into alcoholism after his wife's murder but recovered thanks to his daughter.

* Cassandra Cain AKA ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'s father David is an alcoholic, though it's unclear if he was always one, or if he started DrowningHisSorrows after she ran away from him.
* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's father was an alcoholic, but Steve still loved him.
* ComicBook/IronMan might have gotten his alcoholism from his father, and [[Film/IronMan2 the second movie]] made sure to include a scene of Howard drinking while shooting a film clip. [[spoiler:Though Howard apparently isn't Tony's biological father, it's still possible that he inherited alcoholism from one of his biological parents.]]

* One of the characters to hold the name ComicBook/{{Nova}}, Sam Alexander, had a father who was an alcoholic, which may stem from his [[ShellShockedVeteran flashbacks]] during his time as a [[SpacePolice Nova]]. In spite of this flaw, he was shown to be a {{Good Parent|s}} and [[HappilyMarried good husband]], to the point where Eva even implied that he was experiencing a "rough" time. [[spoiler:Though he became sober after staging a [[SlaveLiberation slave revolt]] against the Chitauris.]]
* In ''ComicBook/PeterPan'', Peter's mother is an abusive alcoholic.

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