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The trope in discussion is when a parent or parents actively ''encourage'' things [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour discouraged for those underaged]]. It is often PlayedForLaughs and includes situations like allowing children to drive without a license, but can also permit to [[HarmfulToMinors dangerous and harmful]] things like encouraging them to have sex with someone significantly older. In this respect, examples can drastically range from [[HippieParents fun]] or [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassing]] to blatant [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. The lighter side of the trope supports the idea that teens should be permitted the freedom to make their own decisions, and that parents should recognise these inclinations as valid. The parents who allow or support certain behaviours are thus praised by their kids as being cool or [[ParentsAsPeople down-to-earth]]. They may even be exposing their children to these things so that they aren't intimidated by them later on in life. That doesn't imply the kids always grow up to value their parents' leniency, in some cases, they come to resent them for exposing them to harmful elements of society.
Usually, only one of the parents is allowing the behaviour, and behind the other parent's back. Typically the fun DisneylandDad tries to give their child experiences they had at that age, in contrast to the concerned [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] who tries to implement values and boundaries. It can also vary depending on the gender of the child. Often, the son is allowed certain privileges, perhaps because boys are viewed as more rebellious than girls. Another usage of the trope is when the parents aren't involved, but rather a relative like a CoolUncle or aunt. Generally, the trope supports the conception that NaughtyIsGood, and that teens [[IncorruptiblePurePureness devoid of rebelliousness]] have less fun in their journey to adulthood. The parent might not always agree with these ethics however. They could be ''trying'' to be laidback, or they could be a [[PushoverParents pushover]] who is too scared to say no. A sistertrope to this is the RadishCure, where a parent encourages their child to do something inappropriate (such as smoke) to punish them. This is occasionally subverted so that the parents are actually permissive rather than punishing. The trope is also similar to HandsOffParenting, but that applies to parents who don't care about their kids' ilicit behaviour, opposed to actively encouraging it.
Usually, only one of the parents is allowing the behaviour, and behind the other parent's back. Typically the fun DisneylandDad tries to give their child experiences they had at that age, in contrast to the concerned [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] who tries to implement values and boundaries. It can also vary depending on the gender of the child. Often, the son is allowed certain privileges, perhaps because boys are viewed as more rebellious than girls. Another usage of the trope is when the parents aren't involved, but rather a relative like a CoolUncle or aunt. Generally, the trope supports the conception that NaughtyIsGood, and that teens [[IncorruptiblePurePureness devoid of rebelliousness]] have less fun in their journey to adulthood. The parent might not always agree with these ethics however. They could be ''trying'' to be laidback, or they could be a [[PushoverParents pushover]] who is too scared to say no. A sistertrope to this is the RadishCure, where a parent encourages their child to do something inappropriate (such as smoke) to punish them. This is occasionally subverted so that the parents are actually permissive rather than punishing. The trope is also similar to HandsOffParenting, but that applies to parents who don't care about their kids' ilicit behaviour, opposed to actively encouraging it.
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The Permissive Parents trope in discussion is when a parent or parents actively ''encourage'' things [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour discouraged for those underaged]]. It is often PlayedForLaughs and includes situations like allowing children to drive without a license, but can also permit to [[HarmfulToMinors dangerous and harmful]] things like encouraging them to have sex with someone significantly older. In this respect, examples can drastically range from [[HippieParents fun]] or [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassing]] to blatant [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. The lighter side of the trope supports the idea that teens should be permitted the freedom to make their own decisions, and that parents should recognise these inclinations as valid. The parents who allow or support certain behaviours are thus praised by their kids as being cool or [[ParentsAsPeople down-to-earth]]. They may even be exposing their children to these things so that they aren't intimidated by them later on in life. That doesn't imply the kids always grow up to value their parents' leniency, in some cases, they come to resent them for exposing them to harmful elements of society.
Usually, only one of the parents is allowing the behaviour, and behind the other parent's back. Typically the fun DisneylandDad tries to give their child experiences they had at thatage, age like letting their sons drink beers or smoke, in contrast to the concerned [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] who tries to implement values and boundaries. It can also vary depending on the gender of the child. Often, the son is allowed certain privileges, perhaps because boys are viewed as more rebellious than girls. Another usage of the trope is when the parents aren't involved, but rather a relative like a CoolUncle or aunt. Generally, the trope supports the conception that NaughtyIsGood, and that teens [[IncorruptiblePurePureness devoid of rebelliousness]] have less fun in their journey to adulthood. The parent might not always agree with these ethics however. They could be ''trying'' to be laidback, or they could be a [[PushoverParents pushover]] who is too scared to say no. A sistertrope to this is the RadishCure, where a parent encourages their child to do something inappropriate (such as smoke) to punish them. This is occasionally subverted so that the parents are actually permissive rather than punishing. The trope is also similar to HandsOffParenting, but that applies to parents who don't care ''care'' about their kids' ilicit behaviour, opposed to actively encouraging it.
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The trope in discussion is when a parent or parents actively ''encourage'' things [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour discouraged for those underaged]]. It is often PlayedForLaughs and includes situations like allowing children to drive without a license, but can also permit to [[HarmfulToMinors dangerous and harmful]] things like encouraging them to have sex with someone significantly older. In this respect, examples can drastically range from [[HippieParents fun]] or [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassing parents]] to blatant [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. The lighter side of the trope supports the idea that teens should be permitted the freedom to make their own decisions, and that parents should recognise these inclinations as valid. The parents who allow or support certain behaviours are thus praised by their kids as being cool or [[ParentsAsPeople down-to-earth]]. They may even be exposing their children to these things so that they aren't intimidated by them later on in life. That doesn't imply the kids always grow up to value their parents' leniency, in some cases, they come to resent them for exposing them to harmful elements of society.
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The trope in discussion is when a parent or parents actively ''encourage'' things [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour discouraged for those underaged]]. It is often PlayedForLaughs and includes situations like allowing children to drive without a license, but can also permit to [[HarmfulToMinors dangerous and harmful]] things like encouraging them to have sex with someone significantly older. In this respect, examples can drastically range from [[HippieParents fun]] or [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassing parents]] embarrassing]] to blatant [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. The lighter side of the trope supports the idea that teens should be permitted the freedom to make their own decisions, and that parents should recognise these inclinations as valid. The parents who allow or support certain behaviours are thus praised by their kids as being cool or [[ParentsAsPeople down-to-earth]]. They may even be exposing their children to these things so that they aren't intimidated by them later on in life. That doesn't imply the kids always grow up to value their parents' leniency, in some cases, they come to resent them for exposing them to harmful elements of society.
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* ''Series/SexEducation'': Otis's sex therapist mother Jean is very open about sex and masturbation. After discovering her son has been faking masturbation, she puts him through excrutiating embarrassment by trying to analyse and assist him.
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* ''Snowtown'': After discovering their neighbour is a paedophile, John encourages the boys mash up kangaroo road kill in a bucket and dump it on the man's front door. He has them write profanities like "fag" on the windows in blood. In another scene, John demands Jamie (his girlfriend's young son) use his gun to shoot John's dog. He later inducts Jamie as an accomplice to the serial killings.
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* ''Series/{{SchittsCreek}}'': Johnny and Moira were at times neglectful and times permissive with their children, especially daughter Alexis. Although Johnny and Moira are sometimes shocked to hear about her wild teenage adventures, at other times, they were well aware of and supported her antics. They knew, for example, she was dating Sean Penn when he was around 40 and she was 14 and Johnny paid for her to make an extremely racy and terrible album when she was underage. His favorite track was called "Hamptons Hoes."
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* Reconstructed in ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. When Harry found out that Dexter was killing animals, he gave him Harry's Code, which insisted that Dexter only go after predators whose victims the justice system had failed. What was initially portrayed as a heroic TakeAThirdOption is discussed more throughout the series, with the suggestion that it perhaps wasn't inevitable that Dexter would move on to killing people, but that he did because Harry had encouraged him.
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* Reconstructed in ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. When Harry found out that Dexter was killing animals, he gave him Harry's Code, which insisted that Dexter only go after predators whose victims the justice system had failed. What was initially portrayed as a heroic TakeAThirdOption (the others being having him become a full fledged SerialKiller or being institutionalized for life) is discussed more throughout the series, with the suggestion that it perhaps wasn't inevitable that Dexter would move on to killing people, but that he did because Harry had encouraged him.
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Most of the time in film and TV, the words "fun parent" are oxymoronic. After all, most parents ''are'' overbearing to some degree. It's their job. They're the ones who decide what is and isn't okay for a kid to do, so usually, they appear [[MeddlingParents too controlling]], [[OverprotectiveDad overprotective]] or [[MyBelovedSmother smothering]]. In some cases however, the parent is the complete inverse of these tropes.
The trope in discussion is when a parent or parents actively ''encourage'' things [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour discouraged for those underaged]]. It is often PlayedForLaughs and includes situations like allowing children to drive without a license, but can also permit to [[HarmfulToMinors dangerous and harmful]] things like encouraging them to have sex with someone significantly older. In this respect, examples can drastically range from [[HippieParents fun]] or [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassing parents]] to blatant [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. The lighter side of the trope supports the idea that teens should be permitted the freedom to make their own decisions, and that parents should recognise these inclinations as valid. The parents who allow or support certain behaviours are thus praised by their kids as being cool or [[ParentsAsPeople down-to-earth]]. They may even be exposing their children to these things so that they aren't intimidated by them later on in life. That doesn't imply the kids always grow up to value their parents' leniency, in some cases, they come to resent them for exposing them to harmful elements of society.
Usually, only one of the parents is allowing the behaviour, and behind the other parent's back. Typically the fun DisneylandDad tries to give their child experiences they had at that age, in contrast to the concerned [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] who tries to implement values and boundaries. It can also vary depending on the gender of the child. Often, the son is allowed certain privileges, perhaps because boys are viewed as more rebellious than girls. Another usage of the trope is when the parents aren't involved, but rather a relative like a CoolUncle or aunt. Generally, the trope supports the conception that NaughtyIsGood, and that teens [[IncorruptiblePurePureness devoid of rebelliousness]] have less fun in their journey to adulthood. The parent might not always agree with these ethics however. They could be ''trying'' to be laidback, or they could be a [[PushoverParents pushover]] who is too scared to say no. A sistertrope to this is the RadishCure, where a parent encourages their child to do something inappropriate (such as smoke) to punish them. This is occasionally subverted so that the parents are actually permissive rather than punishing. The trope is also similar to HandsOffParenting, but that applies to parents who don't care about their kids' ilicit behaviour, opposed to actively encouraging it.
Compare with OpenMindedParent, HippieParents, ParentalNeglect. Contrasted by AdultFear, ThinkOfTheChildren, MoralGuardians.
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* ''Fanfic/AsFateWouldHaveIt'': Nate's mother, upon finding her son and Yancy naked in bed the morning after they've had TheirFirstTime, doesn't get mad at either of them for it. In fact, she lowkey encourages them to continue their relationship this way, knowing that they genuinely love one another.
* In the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}} Back to the Future]]'', Steve allows his son [[SparedByTheAdaptation Tom]] to drink alcohol despite being underage because both of his sons have lived through more hell during their teenage years than most people do in their entire lifetimes.
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[[folder:Film - Live Action]]
* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': Bender tells the group about his abusive father, and how he gifted Bender a carton of cigarettes for Christmas.
* ''Film/TheLovedOnes'': Lola's father, "Daddy", helped her to kidnap and murder multiple young men via lobotomy and indulges her in her dream/nightmare prom fantasy. It's implied to be because of the huge IncestSubtext between them.
* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Regina's mother is very fun-loving, offering her daughter and her daughter's friends condoms or alcohol if they need them.
-->'''Mrs. George''': (walking in on Regina and her boyfriend making out on Regina's bed): Do you guys need anything? Some snacks? A condom?
* ''Film/{{Midsommar}}'': Having just reached womanhood, Maja begins a courtship with Christian. In the film's third act, Christian is inducted into an intercourse ceremony, where all the women surround him and Maja. Under the influence of drugs, he begins having sex with Maja, and her mother sits by encouraging and supporting them. The mother even holds Christian's face and draws his attention to her so he can achieve an orgasm.
* ''Snowtown'': After discovering their neighbour is a paedophile, John encourages the boys mash up kangaroo road kill in a bucket and dump it on the man's front door. He has them write profanities like "fag" on the windows in blood. In another scene, John demands Jamie (his girlfriend's young son) use his gun to shoot John's dog. He later inducts Jamie as an accomplice to the serial killings.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/BrokebackMountain'': Ennis tells Jack a story of his father taking him and his brother to see a dead body. The corpse belonged to a man who lived with his male lover and was beaten to death with a tyre iron by town locals for it.
* ''Literature/DannyTheChampionOfTheWorld'': Danny's father [[KidsDrivingCars allows him to drive the cars]] in the workshop. This is a rare example of a [[GoodParents caring parent]] falling into this trope, and it ends up coming in handy when Danny drives a Baby Austin to save his father when he's ended up stranded in a pit in the forest.
* In the Creator/RoaldDahl book ''The Magic Finger'', Mr. Gregg allows his sons (who are eight and eleven years old) to hunt with him. After they [[BalefulPolymorph turn into birds]], however, they give up their hunting ways.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': At his remission party, Walt grows jealous of Hank's bond with Walter Junior. He encourages them both to take shots with him, but overestimates how much his son (a teenager) can drink. Walt Jr., having had far too much to drink, vomits in the swimming pool.
* Reconstructed in ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. When Harry found out that Dexter was killing animals, he gave him Harry's Code, which insisted that Dexter only go after predators whose victims the justice system had failed. What was initially portrayed as a heroic TakeAThirdOption is discussed more throughout the series, with the suggestion that it perhaps wasn't inevitable that Dexter would move on to killing people, but that he did because Harry had encouraged him.
* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Downplayed. Spencer isn't Carly's dad, but he was PromotedToParent when said dad left to travel the world as a military officer. In one episode, their grandfather thinks he's an unfitting guardian and wants Carly to move in with him. Carly tries to make Spencer freak out by walking into the apartment as a {{goth}} and claiming it was time for a new look... but Spencer only [[NotHelpingYourCase digs the hole deeper]] by encouraging it. Their grandfather protests and Spencer claims that he thinks it's good for Carly to experiment and have phases like that.
* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': Ben's parents leave town on his birthday, but encourage him to use the house for a party, contrasting the trope of teens throwing a [[WildTeenParty party]] without the parents' permission.
* ''Series/NewGirl'': In an episode where everyone reveals how they lost their virginities, Nick and Winston share a particularly unsettling story. While staying at a hotel, Nick's dad (played by Creator/DennisFarina) hired two sex workers to take Nick and Winston's virginities. The two were only teenagers at the time and the workers about twenty years their senior. Nick is unable to follow through with it, but Winston is. It's all PlayedForLaughs and done so by Nick's Dad so that the boys can learn about sex.
* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'': Although she isn't their mother, it's discussed that when Nate and David were teens, they went to their aunt Sarah's for a party. Nate lost his virginity and David wandered off the property to be found the next morning. Ruth struggles to forgive her sister for this, but Sarah sees it as elementary to their development.
* ''Series/TheSopranos'': To help A.J out of his post-breakup depression, Tony encourages him to go to a party being held at The Bing (Tony's strip club). Even though A.J is still under 21 and The Bing would be serving alcohol, he suggests his son should get "a blowjob" or find someone to have sex with.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/CyanideAndHappiness'': In the short "The Punishment", a father finds his young son smoking with his friends. It seems that the father will give the son the RadishCure, but it subverts the trope, and we see him and the young boys all smoking together. The father then says that "big men drink when they smoke", and we see him pouring beer into his son's mouth. The joke ends with the father expressing hatred towards the son's mother, as the boy lies upon a pile of bikini-clad women. He was trying to be a fun DisneylandDad all along rather than punishing the child.
* ''WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals'': In "Pac-Man's Pac-Wedding", a female Pac person yells at Pac Jr.'s uncle for giving twelve-year-old Pac Jr. alcohol.
--->'''Female Pac person''': What the ''hell'' kind of a Pac-uncle are you?
--->'''Uncle''': I'd say a pretty good one! ''(he and his friends laugh until [[VomitIndiscretionShot Pac Jr. vomits]])''
* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'':
** In episode 33, Jayna the AlcoholicParent mentions that when she was nine, her mother couldn't get her out of bed without giving her some Schnapp's, meaning that her mother allowed her [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior to drink alcohol at that age]].
** In episode 65, Jayna tells her children (who are all below 21) that they can have as much beer as they want at the family reunion.
* ''WebAnimation/TheOdd1sOut'': "My Mom's Cruel and Unusual Punishments" shows a younger James talking with three other boys. The first boy notes that his mother allows him to wear clothes with skulls on them, the second reveals that his mother permits him to eat whole tubs of ice cream, and then the third one says that ''his'' mother lets him play with ''knives''.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory'': Allen is a rather racist DirtyKid, and a lot of it is because of his father [[DepravedHomosexual Richard]]'s guidance. Richard not only does nothing to stop Allen Gregory's prejudice and perversity, he actively encourages it. Case in point, in "One Night in Gottlieb", he is quite complacent about the fact that Allen Gregory has supposedly made a sex tape with his elderly principal (he actually hasn't).
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Stan does this all the time with his 14-year-old son Steve in an effort to make Steve grow up faster and become less of a nerd. Examples include forcing Steve to go to another kid's unsupervised house party, taking Steve down to Mexico so he could lose his virginity in a brothel, and gifting Steve a rifle for Christmas even though Francine explicitly forbade it.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Tina-Rannosaurus Wrecks", Bob allows Tina, his 13-year-old daughter, to drive his car. She gets so nervous that she ends up swerving and crashing into the only other car in the parking lot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", Leela's parents are willing to let their de-aged daughter have an independent life but Leela actually ''wants'' the strict parenting a teenager normally gets. Leela's dad responds by giving her a bottle of tequila with a crazy straw.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In "Get Your Freak Off," Bobby is interested in a fellow 13-year-old whose parents want her to see them as friends; as such they encourage her to have an unsupervised coed sleepover that results in a game of 7 Minutes In Heaven that makes most of the kids uncomfortable. Luckily, Hank finds out and encourages the kids to partake in more age-appropriate games that they have more fun with.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer allows his kids to do inappropriate things throughout the series. One example is when he lets Lisa drive the car for him, despite her age of eight years old.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Tweek's parents allow their son to have [[MustHaveCaffeine caffeine]] so that it'll calm him down (which, if anything, does the opposite). As it turns out, the coffee has meth mixed into it, [[AbusiveParents and his parents are alright with Tweek ingesting it so that they can test the quality of the beverage]].
** Pretty much ''all'' the parents in the show are this to some degree, except for the Stotches. The prize might actually go to Liane Cartman, who rarely, if ever, attempts to control her absolute hellion of a son, and when she does, he usually ends up getting his way regardless.
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The trope in discussion is when a parent or parents actively ''encourage'' things [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour discouraged for those underaged]]. It is often PlayedForLaughs and includes situations like allowing children to drive without a license, but can also permit to [[HarmfulToMinors dangerous and harmful]] things like encouraging them to have sex with someone significantly older. In this respect, examples can drastically range from [[HippieParents fun]] or [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassing parents]] to blatant [[AbusiveParents abuse]]. The lighter side of the trope supports the idea that teens should be permitted the freedom to make their own decisions, and that parents should recognise these inclinations as valid. The parents who allow or support certain behaviours are thus praised by their kids as being cool or [[ParentsAsPeople down-to-earth]]. They may even be exposing their children to these things so that they aren't intimidated by them later on in life. That doesn't imply the kids always grow up to value their parents' leniency, in some cases, they come to resent them for exposing them to harmful elements of society.
Usually, only one of the parents is allowing the behaviour, and behind the other parent's back. Typically the fun DisneylandDad tries to give their child experiences they had at that age, in contrast to the concerned [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] who tries to implement values and boundaries. It can also vary depending on the gender of the child. Often, the son is allowed certain privileges, perhaps because boys are viewed as more rebellious than girls. Another usage of the trope is when the parents aren't involved, but rather a relative like a CoolUncle or aunt. Generally, the trope supports the conception that NaughtyIsGood, and that teens [[IncorruptiblePurePureness devoid of rebelliousness]] have less fun in their journey to adulthood. The parent might not always agree with these ethics however. They could be ''trying'' to be laidback, or they could be a [[PushoverParents pushover]] who is too scared to say no. A sistertrope to this is the RadishCure, where a parent encourages their child to do something inappropriate (such as smoke) to punish them. This is occasionally subverted so that the parents are actually permissive rather than punishing. The trope is also similar to HandsOffParenting, but that applies to parents who don't care about their kids' ilicit behaviour, opposed to actively encouraging it.
Compare with OpenMindedParent, HippieParents, ParentalNeglect. Contrasted by AdultFear, ThinkOfTheChildren, MoralGuardians.
As this is TruthInTelevision, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease
!!Example:
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[[folder:Animated Film]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'': Early in the film, Homer convinces Bart to skateboard naked through town.
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[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
* ''Fanfic/AsFateWouldHaveIt'': Nate's mother, upon finding her son and Yancy naked in bed the morning after they've had TheirFirstTime, doesn't get mad at either of them for it. In fact, she lowkey encourages them to continue their relationship this way, knowing that they genuinely love one another.
* In the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfic ''[[Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}} Back to the Future]]'', Steve allows his son [[SparedByTheAdaptation Tom]] to drink alcohol despite being underage because both of his sons have lived through more hell during their teenage years than most people do in their entire lifetimes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film - Live Action]]
* ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'': Bender tells the group about his abusive father, and how he gifted Bender a carton of cigarettes for Christmas.
* ''Film/TheLovedOnes'': Lola's father, "Daddy", helped her to kidnap and murder multiple young men via lobotomy and indulges her in her dream/nightmare prom fantasy. It's implied to be because of the huge IncestSubtext between them.
* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Regina's mother is very fun-loving, offering her daughter and her daughter's friends condoms or alcohol if they need them.
-->'''Mrs. George''': (walking in on Regina and her boyfriend making out on Regina's bed): Do you guys need anything? Some snacks? A condom?
* ''Film/{{Midsommar}}'': Having just reached womanhood, Maja begins a courtship with Christian. In the film's third act, Christian is inducted into an intercourse ceremony, where all the women surround him and Maja. Under the influence of drugs, he begins having sex with Maja, and her mother sits by encouraging and supporting them. The mother even holds Christian's face and draws his attention to her so he can achieve an orgasm.
* ''Snowtown'': After discovering their neighbour is a paedophile, John encourages the boys mash up kangaroo road kill in a bucket and dump it on the man's front door. He has them write profanities like "fag" on the windows in blood. In another scene, John demands Jamie (his girlfriend's young son) use his gun to shoot John's dog. He later inducts Jamie as an accomplice to the serial killings.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/BrokebackMountain'': Ennis tells Jack a story of his father taking him and his brother to see a dead body. The corpse belonged to a man who lived with his male lover and was beaten to death with a tyre iron by town locals for it.
* ''Literature/DannyTheChampionOfTheWorld'': Danny's father [[KidsDrivingCars allows him to drive the cars]] in the workshop. This is a rare example of a [[GoodParents caring parent]] falling into this trope, and it ends up coming in handy when Danny drives a Baby Austin to save his father when he's ended up stranded in a pit in the forest.
* In the Creator/RoaldDahl book ''The Magic Finger'', Mr. Gregg allows his sons (who are eight and eleven years old) to hunt with him. After they [[BalefulPolymorph turn into birds]], however, they give up their hunting ways.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': At his remission party, Walt grows jealous of Hank's bond with Walter Junior. He encourages them both to take shots with him, but overestimates how much his son (a teenager) can drink. Walt Jr., having had far too much to drink, vomits in the swimming pool.
* Reconstructed in ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. When Harry found out that Dexter was killing animals, he gave him Harry's Code, which insisted that Dexter only go after predators whose victims the justice system had failed. What was initially portrayed as a heroic TakeAThirdOption is discussed more throughout the series, with the suggestion that it perhaps wasn't inevitable that Dexter would move on to killing people, but that he did because Harry had encouraged him.
* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Downplayed. Spencer isn't Carly's dad, but he was PromotedToParent when said dad left to travel the world as a military officer. In one episode, their grandfather thinks he's an unfitting guardian and wants Carly to move in with him. Carly tries to make Spencer freak out by walking into the apartment as a {{goth}} and claiming it was time for a new look... but Spencer only [[NotHelpingYourCase digs the hole deeper]] by encouraging it. Their grandfather protests and Spencer claims that he thinks it's good for Carly to experiment and have phases like that.
* ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'': Ben's parents leave town on his birthday, but encourage him to use the house for a party, contrasting the trope of teens throwing a [[WildTeenParty party]] without the parents' permission.
* ''Series/NewGirl'': In an episode where everyone reveals how they lost their virginities, Nick and Winston share a particularly unsettling story. While staying at a hotel, Nick's dad (played by Creator/DennisFarina) hired two sex workers to take Nick and Winston's virginities. The two were only teenagers at the time and the workers about twenty years their senior. Nick is unable to follow through with it, but Winston is. It's all PlayedForLaughs and done so by Nick's Dad so that the boys can learn about sex.
* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'': Although she isn't their mother, it's discussed that when Nate and David were teens, they went to their aunt Sarah's for a party. Nate lost his virginity and David wandered off the property to be found the next morning. Ruth struggles to forgive her sister for this, but Sarah sees it as elementary to their development.
* ''Series/TheSopranos'': To help A.J out of his post-breakup depression, Tony encourages him to go to a party being held at The Bing (Tony's strip club). Even though A.J is still under 21 and The Bing would be serving alcohol, he suggests his son should get "a blowjob" or find someone to have sex with.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/CyanideAndHappiness'': In the short "The Punishment", a father finds his young son smoking with his friends. It seems that the father will give the son the RadishCure, but it subverts the trope, and we see him and the young boys all smoking together. The father then says that "big men drink when they smoke", and we see him pouring beer into his son's mouth. The joke ends with the father expressing hatred towards the son's mother, as the boy lies upon a pile of bikini-clad women. He was trying to be a fun DisneylandDad all along rather than punishing the child.
* ''WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals'': In "Pac-Man's Pac-Wedding", a female Pac person yells at Pac Jr.'s uncle for giving twelve-year-old Pac Jr. alcohol.
--->'''Female Pac person''': What the ''hell'' kind of a Pac-uncle are you?
--->'''Uncle''': I'd say a pretty good one! ''(he and his friends laugh until [[VomitIndiscretionShot Pac Jr. vomits]])''
* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'':
** In episode 33, Jayna the AlcoholicParent mentions that when she was nine, her mother couldn't get her out of bed without giving her some Schnapp's, meaning that her mother allowed her [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior to drink alcohol at that age]].
** In episode 65, Jayna tells her children (who are all below 21) that they can have as much beer as they want at the family reunion.
* ''WebAnimation/TheOdd1sOut'': "My Mom's Cruel and Unusual Punishments" shows a younger James talking with three other boys. The first boy notes that his mother allows him to wear clothes with skulls on them, the second reveals that his mother permits him to eat whole tubs of ice cream, and then the third one says that ''his'' mother lets him play with ''knives''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory'': Allen is a rather racist DirtyKid, and a lot of it is because of his father [[DepravedHomosexual Richard]]'s guidance. Richard not only does nothing to stop Allen Gregory's prejudice and perversity, he actively encourages it. Case in point, in "One Night in Gottlieb", he is quite complacent about the fact that Allen Gregory has supposedly made a sex tape with his elderly principal (he actually hasn't).
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Stan does this all the time with his 14-year-old son Steve in an effort to make Steve grow up faster and become less of a nerd. Examples include forcing Steve to go to another kid's unsupervised house party, taking Steve down to Mexico so he could lose his virginity in a brothel, and gifting Steve a rifle for Christmas even though Francine explicitly forbade it.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In "Tina-Rannosaurus Wrecks", Bob allows Tina, his 13-year-old daughter, to drive his car. She gets so nervous that she ends up swerving and crashing into the only other car in the parking lot.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", Leela's parents are willing to let their de-aged daughter have an independent life but Leela actually ''wants'' the strict parenting a teenager normally gets. Leela's dad responds by giving her a bottle of tequila with a crazy straw.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In "Get Your Freak Off," Bobby is interested in a fellow 13-year-old whose parents want her to see them as friends; as such they encourage her to have an unsupervised coed sleepover that results in a game of 7 Minutes In Heaven that makes most of the kids uncomfortable. Luckily, Hank finds out and encourages the kids to partake in more age-appropriate games that they have more fun with.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer allows his kids to do inappropriate things throughout the series. One example is when he lets Lisa drive the car for him, despite her age of eight years old.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Tweek's parents allow their son to have [[MustHaveCaffeine caffeine]] so that it'll calm him down (which, if anything, does the opposite). As it turns out, the coffee has meth mixed into it, [[AbusiveParents and his parents are alright with Tweek ingesting it so that they can test the quality of the beverage]].
** Pretty much ''all'' the parents in the show are this to some degree, except for the Stotches. The prize might actually go to Liane Cartman, who rarely, if ever, attempts to control her absolute hellion of a son, and when she does, he usually ends up getting his way regardless.
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