[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/big_screwed_up_family.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[ThisLoserIsYou Your typical American family.]]]]
->''From now on a household of five will be divided,\\
three against two and two against three;\\
a father will be divided against his son\\
and a son against his father,\\
a mother against her daughter\\
and a daughter against her mother,\\
a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law\\
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.''
-->-- '''[[Literature/TheFourGospels Luke 12:52-53]]''', ''Literature/TheBible''

Tropes about family members who just ''really'' can't get along with each other too well.

Obviously, this is a subcategory of FamilyTropes.
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[[folder:General Family Mess]]
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'''Main trope:'''
+ DysfunctionalFamily

'''See also:'''
+ AbuseTropes
+ IncestIsRelative
+ MurderInTheFamily
+ ThisIndexIsNotLikeHisFamily
]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: A big family with all sorts of issues surrounding it.
* BlackSheep: The one member of the family who is met with disdain by their relatives for being different from the rest of the bloodline.
* BlendedFamilyDrama: A family including children from previous relationships struggles to get along.
* CannibalClan: A family who [[ImAHumanitarian eats other people]].
* CustodyBattle: Conflict ensues when a couple gets divorced and can't agree on who should get custody of the children.
* DinnerAndAShow: When a dysfunctional family sits down together for dinner, something's bound to go wrong.
* DivineInfernalFamily: Cosmic opposites as family. [[GodKartingWithBeelzebub Sometimes not dysfunctional]], but that's usually the exception to the rule.
* DomesticAbuse: Someone physically and/or psychologically abuses another family member.
* FamilialBodySnatcher: A BodySnatcher who only possesses members of their own family and/or descendants.
* FamilyDisunion: DinnerAndAShow taken to the next level (involving big events among extended family, such as weddings or funerals).
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: An evil family comprised of murderous criminals.
* FinancialAbuse: Abusing a family member by controlling their money.
* FormerlyFriendlyFamily: Family members were once close, but grew to hate each other.
* FreudianExcuse: It's established that a villain (or a {{Jerkass}}) is the way they are because of something bad that happened to them when they were younger. Examples commonly involve domestic abuse or a beloved family member dying in front of them.
* GuineaPigFamily: A scientist uses their relatives for (usually unethical) experiments.
* HereditarySuicide: Suicide runs in families.
* HonorRelatedAbuse: Abuse that is committed in order to enforce a twisted code of personal honor/pride, and to punish those who are perceived to be violating it.
* HonorThyAbuser: A character learns to forgive and respect their abusive relatives, usually their AbusiveParents.
* InbredAndEvil: Being born of incest leads to immorality.
* IncestantAdmirer: When incestuous attraction is ''[[AbhorrentAdmirer not]]'' [[AbhorrentAdmirer reciprocated]] in the slightest.
* IntrafamilialClassConflict: Class conflict between relatives.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: Craziness or weirdness runs in the family.
* KidsVersusAdults: A well-known conflict in many families, either between siblings, between parents and kids, or with extended family.
* KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Killing a family member is seen as particularly heinous.
* NotBloodNotFamily: A character is denied as being family due to a lack of biological relation.
* OnlyCaresAboutInheritance: A character only cares about a family member's death because it will get them an inheritance.
* PlayingTheFamilyCard: A character uses family ties to manipulate someone into helping them.
* ProdigalFamily: Estranged family members show up to complicate a character's life.
* RoyalInbreeding: When royalty and nobility only marry within their class, it may eventually lead to a smaller gene pool and twisted family trees.
* RoyallyScrewedUp: Dysfunctional dynasties; royal families who don't get along well.
* StepServant: The character is made a servant/slave to the rest of the family.
* TreatedWorseThanThePet: Someone's status in their family is so low that even animals are treated better or valued more than they are.
* TroubledAbuser: The abuser bullies their family members because they were also abused themselves.
* TitanomachyRoundTwo: Someone's trying to free Cronus, Zeus's dad, to take Zeus out. Regular culprits tend to be Zeus's brothers, his wife, or a son.
* VicariousGoldDigger: A character pushes their relative to marry for money instead of respecting the relative's wishes.
* VillainousIncest: A villain has sex with a blood relative to show how evil and disgusting they are.
* VillainousLineage: Villainy runs in the family.
* WhiteSheep: The one decent member of a family otherwise composed of scoundrels.
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[[folder:Lovers and Spouses]]
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'''See also:'''
+ DysfunctionalRomanceIndex
+ TheExIndex
+ InfidelityIndex
]
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Forcing someone to marry another person whom they'd rather not want to spend the rest of their lives with.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Both spouses are miserable together.
* BlackWidow: A woman who marries men so she can eventually kill them.
* TheBluebeard: A man who marries women so he can eventually kill them.
* ContraceptionDeception: One partner deceives the other about their ability to conceive children. Can be considered rape by fraud.
* {{Cuckold}}: A man who is being cheated on by his partner and probably knows, but can't/won't do much about it.
* ADeadlyAffair: An extramarital affair results in the murder of one or more person(s) involved or affected by it.
* DeadSparks: The couple loved each other once, but now just stay together out of complacency.
* DestructiveRomance: A romantic relationship is unambiguously toxic for the people involved (not always outright [[DomesticAbuse abusive]] but still unhealthy).
* DivorceAssetsConflict: A divorcing couple fight over their property.
* DivorceRequiresDeath: Someone tries to end their marriage by either killing their [[TilMurderDoUsPart spouse]], or [[DrivenToSuicide themselves]] (or [[MurderSuicide both]]).
* AFamilyAffair: A character cheats on their spouse with someone their spouse is related to (such as their spouse's sibling).
* FetishizedAbuser: A person abuses their lover and is made to look good doing it.
* FoolishHusbandResponsibleWife: A wife is smarter than her husband.
* FootDraggingDivorcee: One spouse doesn't want a divorce.
* GoldDigger: Marrying someone just to gain access to their wealth rather than love.
* HappyMarriageCharade: The married couple pretends that they're happy together to throw other people off.
* HenpeckedHusband: A submissive husband allows his bossy wife to constantly nag at and order him around.
* {{Kichiku}}: MediaNotes/AnimeFanspeak for a male FetishizedAbuser.
* KichikuMegane: MediaNotes/AnimeFanspeak for a male FetishizedAbuser who wears glasses to indicate that he is smart, sophisticated, and successful.
* LazyHusband: The husband is very reluctant to do anything his wife asks of him.
* MaritalRapeLicense: The belief that it is okay to force one's wife or husband into having sex, regardless of whether they consent or not.
* MarriedTooYoung: A couple gets married young and faces relationship problems as a consequence of not waiting until they've matured enough.
* TheMasochismTango: A couple who frequently alternate between being affectionate and fighting (essentially BelligerentSexualTension, but with the tension already resolved).
* OldManMarryingAChild: An elderly man marries a young girl.
* ParentingTheHusband: The wife caters to every whim of her [[{{Manchild}} immature husband]], treating him like he was her child.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: A crazy former girlfriend/wife (or boyfriend/husband) out for revenge.
* RomanticizedAbuse: Domestic abuse is made to look more attractive than it really is.
* SecretOtherFamily: A character has a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin secret second family]] the other family knew nothing about.
* SerialSpouse: A person has married and divorced multiple times.
* SexlessMarriage: A married couple who don't have sex, which often causes problems in their marriage.
* ShotgunWedding: When an accidental pregnancy leads to a reluctant (if not forced) marriage.
* SteppingStoneSpouse: A partner sacrifices for their spouse only to be left behind when fortunes increase
* TilMurderDoUsPart: Someone plans to kill or has killed their spouse.
* ToiletSeatDivorce: A couple divorce over a [[FelonyMisdemeanor trivial reason]].
* UnholyMatrimony: Marriage between two evil people.
* UnwantedSpouse: Their spouse is stuck being married to them even though they don't love or necessarily even ''like'' them.
* WidowMistreatment: When someone dies, their spouse is treated worse by their family.
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[[folder:Parents and Offspring]]
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'''See also:'''
+ ChildAbuseTropes
+ OrphanedIndex
+ ParentalIssues
]
* AbandonedWarChild: Children who were fathered by a disappeared soldier during wartime. They either live with a single mother or perhaps they have become orphaned by her as well.
* AbusiveAlienParents: Extraterrestrials are shown to be worse at raising their offspring than humans are.
* AbusiveOffspring: Children who are abusive towards their own parents.
* AbusiveParents: Parents who act cold and cruel towards their children.
** PimpingTheOffspring: Parents who allow their children to be sexually exploited for personal gain.
* AdultsAreUseless: Parents are too stupid, apathetic, or oblivious to do anything helpful when their children are in trouble.
* AdoptionAngst: A character has issues with their parents because they were adopted.
* AffairBlameTheBastard: Taking out your anger from your spouse's infidelity on the bastard child born of said infidelity.
* AlcoholicParent: People don't tend to be good parents if they are drunk on booze most of the time.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Parents who have a tendency to (accidentally) humiliate their kids in public.
* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: When it's not exactly obvious if someone's parent(s) are around or not.
* AntagonisticOffspring: A person who antagonizes their parents.
* AnticsEnablingWife: A wife who lets her husband work out his plans despite telling him they won't do so well.
* ArchnemesisDad: Abusive fathers.
* AwkwardFatherSonBondingActivity: A father tries to bond with his son, but it doesn't end well (often because the father forces the son into an activity he has no interest in).
* BastardAngst: Children born to unmarried parents can suffer difficult lives for various reasons. May sometimes overlap with ParentalAbandonment.
* BastardBastard: A person who is a bastard in both senses of the word (i.e. he was born out of wedlock ''and'' he's a jerk).
* BetrayalByOffspring: Someone backstabs their parents.
* BrattyHalfPint: An obnoxious child who may act rude or ungrateful towards their parents (and also their siblings or other family members).
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: A teenage girl who acts rude or ungrateful towards her parents.
* BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: Someone tries to avoid making the same mistakes that their parents made while raising their own children.
* BoyfriendBlockingDad: A father who is overly controlling of his daughter's love life.
* BumblingDad: The father of the family is a complete moron.
* CallingParentsByTheirName: A child addresses their parents by their given names, often as a sign of disrespect.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When children call out their parents for their actions.
* CallingTheYoungManOut: When parents call out their children for ''their'' actions.
* ChildByRape: A child from forced conception.
* ChildSupplantsParent: A child intends to supplant their parent.
* ChocolateBaby: A child doesn't quite look like one or both of their parents, suggesting that their real parent is someone their other parent cheated with.
* DaddyDidntShow: A parent fails to show up for a child's special event.
* DelusionsOfParentalLove: A child is [[AbusiveParents abused]], [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned]], or [[ParentalNeglect neglected]] by their parents, but insist that their parents really do love them despite their mistreatment.
* DisappearedDad: A character's mother is present, but not their father.
* DisinheritedChild: A parent leaves their child out of their will, ensuring that their child doesn't inherit jack squat when they die.
* DisneylandDad: Type II; absentee parent tries to buy their offspring's love with expensive gifts rather than show them actual affection.
* DisownedParent: A child disowns their parent.
* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: A parent barely understands anything about their kid's personality.
* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff: A character (usually a parent) spanks a kid.
* DumbassTeenageSon: A teenage boy who acts stupid or ungrateful towards his parents.
* ElderAbuse: Someone abuses their parents or other older family members.
* EmancipatedChild: A child legally "divorces" themselves from their parents.
* EvilMatriarch: Abusive mothers.
* FantasyForbiddingFather: The parents frown upon their children pursuing interests and goals that they do not see as matching their idea of a proper future.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: When a man abandons the mother of his child soon after impregnating her.
* GrandparentFavoritism: These grandparents love their grandchildren... because they're more likable or superior to their own children.
* GruesomeGrandparent: Parental abuse, but it skips a generation.
* HandsOffParenting: Parents who are ''very'' irresponsible when it comes to raising their kids.
* HatesTheirParent: When a child hates or dislikes their parents for some reason.
* HelicopterParents: When a parent is overly involved in their children's lives, often micromanaging their activities and social life, to the detriment of the child.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: A character is shown to have a ludicrously rough childhood for BlackComedy purposes.
* IHateYouVampireDad: An [[TragicMonster angsty vampire]] hates the person who turned them into one (who may be a [[ParentalSubstitute parental figure]], or even their actual parent).
* IHaveNoSon: A child gets disowned by their parents.
* InadequateInheritor: A child's or heir's worthiness of inheritance is questioned by their elders.
* JealousParent: A parent competes with their child for their spouse's attention.
* JunkieParent: Parents who are addicted to recreational drugs are often shown as being irresponsible.
* KnightTemplarParent: Parents who go to ridiculous extremes to defend their offspring from people and situations that they believe to be harming them.
* LoveObstructingParents: The parents disapprove of their child's choice of romantic partner, and so they try to split them up.
* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: A child is blamed for their mother's DeathByChildbirth.
* {{Matricide}}: Killing one's mother.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: The middle child is unable to get as much affection or attention as their older and younger siblings.
* MissingMom: A character's father is present, but not their mother.
* AMistakeIsBorn: A child is regarded as a "mistake" (i.e. accidentally and/or regretfully conceived) by one or both parents.
* MyBelovedSmother: A mother who is clingy, controlling, and overbearing to their children.
* NewParentNomenclatureProblem: A child is unsure what to call their new step/adoptive/newly discovered parent.
* NotActuallyHisChild: A man finds out his child is not biologically his.
* NotoriousParent: A parent runs away from their offspring because they are a fugitive criminal wanted by law enforcement.
* OffingTheOffspring: A parent kills their own child or children.
* ParentalAbandonment: One or both of a character's parents are absent from their kid's life, whether due to that parent being deceased, missing, divorced, separated, or even having intentionally abandoned their family. May sometimes overlap with BastardAngst.
* ParentalBetrayal: A character is betrayed by their parent/parental figure.
* ParentalFavoritism: Parents have one child they like more than the others.
* ParentalIncest: Sex or romantic relationship between a parent and a child.
* ParentalMarriageVeto: They try to discourage their kid from marrying a fiancé(e) whom they dislike.
* ParentalNeglect: Parents who tend to ignore their kids' emotional needs, and don't seem to care much about whatever happens to them.
* ParentalSavingsSplurge: A character's parent uses up all or most of the money that was supposed to be for their child (e.g. college fund).
* ParentalTitleCharacterization: What you call your parents indicates your relationship with them.
* PaterFamilicide: Someone kills their entire immediate family (spouse and children) and then themselves in a MurderSuicide.
* {{Patricide}}: Killing one's father.
* PervertDad: A father who is sexually abusive towards his daughter (or son).
* PushoverParents: Parents who are easily manipulated into letting their children have their way.
* RacistGrandma: An elderly relative (often, though not always, a grandparent) who causes drama by spouting bigoted views, especially with the younger generations.
* ResentfulGuardian: They really regret having to raise a kid.
* SafetyWorst: Parents go overboard keeping their child safe, stopping them from having fun or being independent.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Someone murders their own parents.
* ShedTheFamilyName: A character stops going by their family name, usually because they're disowned by their family.
* SingleMomStripper: A prostitute, stripper, or other sex worker does this job in order to feed her child(ren).
* SonOfAWhore: Someone born from a [[SingleMomStripper prostitute]].
* SpoiledBrat: A child who is rude and obnoxious because their parents give them whatever they want, whenever they want.
* StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids: Parents who are over-protective or too strict with their children simply make them better at hiding secrets.
* StrugglingSingleMother: It's much more difficult to raise a child [[DisappearedDad without their father]].
* ToughLove: Parents treating their children harshly in order to make them better.
* TrophyChild: A child who is treated as a status symbol by their parents more so than a person.
* TroubledChild: Abuse and/or neglect doesn't do wonders for a kid's well-being.
* TheUnfavourite: A child who is ignored and neglected by their parents in favor of their siblings.
* UnpleasantParentReveal: Discovering an AwfulTruth about a parent or parents.
* UselessBystanderParent: A parent who does little or nothing to protect their child from abuse by the other parent.
* WantedAGenderConformingChild: Parents take issue with their son or daughter not conforming to traditional gender stereotypes.
* WantedASonInstead: A parent is disappointed when their new child isn't a boy (or more rarely, a girl).
* WellDoneDadGuy: A father who wishes his son would respect him.
* WellDoneSonGuy: A son who wishes his father would respect him.
* WhereDidWeGoWrong: Parents wonder if their child turned out poorly (or poorly in their eyes) because of the way they raised them.
* WhyAreYouNotMySon: When a parent (unfavorably) compares their own child not to their sibling, but to that child's ''friend''.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: When parents are disappointed that their kids failed to live up to their expectations of them.
* WickedStepmother: Abusive stepmothers (or stepfathers) mistreating their spouse's biological children from another marriage.
* WifeHusbandry: Adopting a child for the purpose of marrying them when they're old enough.
* YoureNotMyFather: A character tells a parent/parental figure that they're not their parent.
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[[folder:Brothers and Sisters]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: A younger sibling who bothers their older sibling by being annoying.
* BigBrotherAttraction: A girl is attracted to her older brother.
* BigBrotherBully: An older sibling who picks on their younger siblings.
* BrotherSisterIncest: Sex or romantic relationship between siblings.
* CainAndAbel: Brothers who don't get along well.
* CainAndAbelAndSeth
* DisappointingOlderSibling: A character who is seen as a letdown by their younger sibling, often for being a bully, irresponsible, etc.
* DisownedSibling: One sibling disowns the other.
* EvilBrunetteTwin: An EvilTwin who is dark-haired while the good twin is light-haired.
* EvilTwin: A wicked twin sibling who antagonizes their brother or sister.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: One sibling is responsible and cares about doing the right thing, while the other one is a lazy slacker who gets into trouble.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Sisters, one smart and one pretty, who don't get along well.
* HalfSiblingAngst: The fact that you only share one parent with them makes it more difficult to get along with them.
* InfantSiblingJealousy: Feeling annoyed that your cute baby brother/sister gets all of your parents' attention.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Older siblings who go to extreme lengths to protect their younger siblings.
* LittleSisterHeroine: A female character whose relationship with her older brother (or a brother-figure) has incestuous undertones.
* ResentfulOutnumberedSibling: Someone dislikes that they are the only brother or sister in the family.
* SiblingMurder: Killing one's own brother or sister.
* SiblingRivalry: Siblings who don't get along well.
* SpartanSibling: A character who is unsympathetic to their sibling's struggles and expects them to fend for themselves.
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Someone feels overshadowed by their sibling's achievements.
* {{Twincest}}: Twins have sex or they are romantically related.
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[[folder:Extended Family and Other Relatives]]
* ClashingCousins: A conflict between cousins from different sides of the family. May overlap with FeudingFamilies if the families are big enough.
* CreepyUncle: An uncle who has an incestuous interest in his niece or nephew.
* EvilNephew: A wicked nephew/niece who antagonizes their uncle/aunt.
* EvilUncle: A wicked uncle/aunt who antagonizes their nephew/niece.
* IllegalGuardian: A [[ParentalSubstitute parental figure/guardian]] with not-so-benevolent intentions towards the child they're looking after.
* KissingCousins: Incest between cousins.
* MeetTheInLaws: Drama and conflict arising from having to meet your significant other's family.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Hostility between a married person and their spouse's relatives.
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