With Pearl and Ruby Glowing has several parents that aren't winning a parent of the year award anytime soon, and many are even sexually abusive to their kids.
- Gothel raised Rapunzel, though it's heavily implied she kidnapped her as a child, and trained her to view all men as potentially dangerous, leaving her clingy and frightened of the outside world.
- Triton has a Hair-Trigger Temper and frightens Ariel badly enough to make her try to leave home, though he's regretful about it later.
- King Candy adopted the Sugar Rush racers and was sexually abusive to all of them except Vanellope, who he instead emotionally neglected.
- Basil's father is of the emotionally abusive variety.
- Elinor deeply regrets having been excessively strict and unaccepting of Merida and is making an effort to change.
- Randall is Boo's stepfather here and neglected her whenever he wasn't abusing her sexually.
- Zira neglects Vitani entirely and rapes Nuka until she gets pregnant from him, before he even turns twelve.
- Ratso was abused by multiple family members at home, until Rob helped him get out.
- Yue's father cared for her deeply but pressured her to marry an abusive man, and she speculates that he wouldn't have done much about it because seventy years ago that kind of thing wasn't considered abnormal.
- Lady Tremaine treats Cinderella about as well as she did in canon.
- Captain Hook is Peter Pan's father, and abuses him and pimps him out. Peter fantasises about killing him or cutting his hand off.
- Unalaq abused Desna and Eska for years, causing Eska to become pregnant from Rape by Proxy by Desna twice.
- Jacques Schnee hits Weiss and scars her eye, and his interactions with Robyn have extremely troubling implications about his relationship with Winter.
- Coraline's parents cross into outright neglect here, not listening to her when she tells them about the sexual misconduct of the Beldam.
- Shan Yu sold his daughters to the Ark, and also ignored his preteen sons and let them witness him abusing their mother Della Duck, to the point that they don't object at all to leaving him.
- Skipper and Private were raised by neglectful drug addicts, until Skipper took Private and ran away.
- Marcus was physically and sexually abusive towards Mercury, going so far as to shatter both his legs with a pipe and leave him on the floor until gangrene set in.
- Duncan's parents are mentioned to have threatened to beat him with a belt and don't see anything wrong with a drastic change in behavior from him after he's forced into sex by his parole officer.
- Daffy's mother emotionally abused him and encouraged his father to molest him instead of bothering her for sex.
- Tulio was sexually abused by his father until he ran away as a preteen.
- Timmy's parents are arguably neglectful, leaving him with violent pedophile Babysitter from Hell Vicky and not believing him when he complains.
- Gary's parents came into his room to grope and kiss him most nights, to the point that he's surprised when they don't come. He interpreted the incidents as scavenging monsters checking to see if he was dead, since he knows carrion-eating animals eat the soft parts like the tongue and genitals first, and is so used to them that he isn't even frightened at all.
- Mew and Mewtwo's parents beat and molested Mewtwo and starved Mew for getting poor grades.
- Chel's mother hit her, told her she should have been aborted, and ultimately threw her out of the house without even letting her get dressed when she found her being abused by her stepfather Tzekel Kan because of jealousy.
- Varrick meant well, but was much too young when he had Tahno and didn't know how to appropriately care for him.
- The Moon King was sexually abusive towards Kubo's mother and aunts, and to Kubo himself when he got custody.
- Not only did Ozai scar Zuko's face (here with a piece of firewood) but he also molested him and Azula. Ursa isn't exactly abusive, but she was complicit in the plan to have Azula lobotomized and kept in an abusive asylum, which was considered a good idea for violent young women in the 1960s.
- Curious case with Viren who is as emotionally abusive towards Soren as he was in canon, but without Aaravos to influence him, he learned his lesson and is trying to make up for it.
- Magica de Spell is Lena's birth mother here, but didn't want to be a mother so made Lena call her "aunt" instead, along with hitting her, neglecting her, and forcing her to work in her New Age store.
- Ramses de Nile had both his daughters clitoridectomised, and Deuce's mother emotionally abuses Deuce for fear he'll turn out like the man who raped her and produced him.
- Flim, Flam, and Trixie were raised by a father who beat them and taught them to pick pockets, and ended up in terrible foster homes when he was caught.
- The Heinous family takes this to a whole new level with all the fathers for six generations being sexually abusive to their sons. Lucius VII doesn't do this to his own son, Beezy, but is somewhat neglectful and demanding and eventually attacked his own father in front of him.
- Cleo's anti-choice parents refuse to let her get an abortion despite her being only eight years old and likely to die if she carries to term. Difficult Conversations shows that several parents have called them out on it, and the comments show that many readers despise Cleo's parents for it.
- Giovanni and Delia are the parents of Elaine and Composite Character Chase/Silver. Only people of pure Italian blood can officially be in the inner circle of the Mafia and Silver looked more white than Elaine did, plus he was male, so Giovanni took him and left Elaine with Delia.
- Prima's father kidnapped and sexually abused her.
- Alain and Mairin's father molested them and killed Mairin's dog.
- Lusamine was an Education Mama who killed Gladion's pets and raped him when his father died, but she reformed when Lillie was born.
- Cynthia and Verity's mother neglected Verity because she reminded her of the rape that produced her.
- Hilda's parents threw her out for being trans, then guiltily adopted Nate and forced him to dress like her.
- Howard Clifford used his sons as a supply for blood transfusions, then persuaded Ditto (here Roger's human twin) to have sex with him to frame Roger for assault.
- Ghetsis raped N and left him for his sisters to raise, and trained all of them to follow his extremist beliefs.
- Fantina and the ghost girl were left at home all the time with an abusive guardian by their jetsetting parents.
- Bidoof's mother favored her siblings because of her blood type and darker skin, wouldn't let her eat much because she wasn't skinny, called her stupid for not understanding her (due to undiagnosed SPD), and whipped her vulva with a belt. Thankfully, Bidoof was taken away from her when Lucario and the trainer witnessed her getting beaten.
- The GOTCHA! kids' dad had sex with his older daughter to produce them, then when she ran away he sexually abused them too.
- Avery's parents beat him when he didn't live up to the standard Bede set and eventually kicked him out.
- The Coachman is Alberto's father. This does not prevent him from using him as merch in a Human Trafficking organisation and eventually attempting to drown him when he isn't desirable for the clients.
- Geumsaegi's parents sent his little sister to an Orphanage of Fear and denied her existence because she went deaf.
- Shadowy Figure and Professor Venomous are a Decomposite Character; Shadowy Figure kept Venomous as a Sex Slave in his basement, and left his daughter Fink in the basement too for Venomous to raise.
- Eyeball Ruby is Aquamarine's biological mother in this fanfic, and she molested her, which led to Aquamarine being put in custody of the Topazes.
- The Normanmeyers attempt to stamp out and "cure" N.J's autism in a series of abusive ways, ultimately leading to them poisoning him with bleach during one such attempt.
- Much like the Coachman, Cruella De Vil had no issues handing her son Hunter over to the Ark once she ran out of uses for him.
- Father adopted five kids who he beat and raped, all the while grooming them into acting more like adults so they were more attractive to him.
