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* AdoptionConflict: When there's a CustodyBattle between the adoptive parent and the biological parent. The child may or may not be roped into the conflict.
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* GiftForAnOutgrownInterest: A gift-giver's idea of what the recipient (usually a parent to their child) would like is based on ''very'' outdated memories.
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* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: A character looks after the child of someone they killed.
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** PimpingTheOffspring: A parent sells their own child into prostitution.
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* FreudianExcuseDenial: A character who is a harsh or abusive parent denies having a bad upbringing or at least doesn't think it effects them negatively.

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* FreudianExcuseDenial: A character who is a harsh or abusive parent denies having a bad upbringing or at least doesn't think it effects affects them negatively.
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* ChildAbuseIsASpecialKindOfEvil: A parent abuses their child/children, and it's shown as a purely evil act.
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* AbandonmentInducedAnimosity: A child is abandoned by their parents, and resents them as a result.
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* GentleTouchVsFirmHand: Two parents have different methods in guiding their children - one is through kindness while the other is through strictness.

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* GentleTouchVsFirmHand: Two parents have different methods in guiding their children - -- one is through kindness while the other is through strictness.

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* AbusiveAlienParents: Aliens have no parenting skills.



** AbusiveAlienParents: Aliens have no parenting skills.



* {{Matricide}}: Someone kills their own mother.



* ParentWithNewParamour: A character reacts to their parent receiving a new LoveInterest.

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* ParentWithNewParamour: A character reacts to their parent receiving a new LoveInterest.{{Love Interest|s}}.
* {{Patricide}}: Someone kills their own father.


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* SelfMadeOrphan: Someone kills their own parents.
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* FirstFatherWins

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* FirstFatherWinsFirstFatherWins: A divorced father has to regain the trust of his former partner (and possibly their child) in order to still be in his child's life.
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* TaughtToHate: Parents or guardians teach their own hatreds to their kids.

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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: A father who will be confrontational to anyone he suspects is getting too close to his daughter.



* BoyfriendBlockingDad: A father who will be confrontational to anyone he suspects is getting too close to his daughter.
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* DelusionsOfParentalLove: A child insists that their parents love them, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.
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* WantedAGenderConformingChild: A son or daughter pursues interests commonly associated with the opposite gender, which the parents aren't happy with.
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* GenerationalTrauma: Conflict arises due to unresolved baggage passed down from generation to generation.
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* DisownedParent: A child disowns their parent(s).
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* MeddlingParents: Parents who are too involved in their children's lives.
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* HelicopterParents: Parents who are ''very'' involved with their children's lives, often to excessive degrees.

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* ChildSupplantsParent: A person who challenges their parent in an attempt to supplant them.



* OedipusComplex: A person who challenges their same-sex parent to seek the love of the opposite-sex one.
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* AnticsEnablingWife: When despite knowing better, the mother will do little to prevent the fallout from the actions of a BumblingDad
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See ChildAbuseTropes for tropes where children are harmed in general, not just by their parents.

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* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: A parent leaves to run a casual errand and never comes back.



* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: A parent leaves to run a casual errand and never comes back.

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* ParentNeverCameBackFromTheStore: A parent leaves ParentsSuckAtMatchmaking: Whoever their parents pick for their kids is guaranteed to run a casual errand and never comes back.be someone they don't like.

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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: A father who will be confrontational to anyone he suspects is getting too close to his daughter.



* OverprotectiveDad: A father who will be confrontational to anyone he suspects is getting too close to his daughter.
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* ParentInducedExtendedChildhood: An unhealthily obsessive parent literally prevents their child from growing up.
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* ParentalIncest: Sex between a parent and a child.

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* ParentalIncest: Sex or romantic relationship between a parent and a child.
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->''"Boy, I love meeting people's moms. It's like an instruction manual on why they're so nuts."''
-->-- '''Ted''', ''Series/TedLasso''
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* WantedASonInstead: A son or daughter is the opposite gender of what the parent was hoping for.
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* BabyAsPayment: A parent uses their child as currency to pay for something.
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* PermissiveParents

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* PermissiveParentsPermissiveParents: Parents that actively encourage things [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior discouraged for those underaged]].

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