History Main / PreachersKid

* And regarding the Christian church, Paul addresses this idea directly when laying out the requirements for church leaders (1 Timothy 3):

Note that Roman Catholic[[note]]More precisely Latin Rite priests, as like their Orthodox colleagues, Eastern Catholic priests are allowed to have gotten married prior to ordination, thus able to have children; the same applies to Latin rite priests with special dispensations or who were widowers upon studying for the priesthood. This does not appear much in media, though, because most Catholic priests are Latin Rite[[/note]] priests are supposed to be celibate (as opposed to most Protestant and Orthodox Churches), so any examples from that denomination are going to be of necessity [[BastardBastard illegitimate]]. If the writer doesn't want to go down that route, one can either (a) substitute the Catholic for an Anglican (who are, in the words of the late Anglican Creator/RobinWilliams "Catholic Lite") or (b) substitute a priest for a deacon (married Catholic men are allowed to become deacons--indeed, most deacons who aren't in training for the priesthood are married--and deacons are held to a similar standard of conduct as priests).

* ''Film/BreakfastOnPluto'''s heroine, Kitten, is the product of an affair between a Catholic priest and his housekeeper. She's also {{transgender}}, making a traditional religious upbringing somewhat hard on her, but she is undeniably the sweet-natured ingenue one might expect of this trope.

** The intro suggests that [[InTheBlood his father had a very similar backstory]], and the end ambiguously suggests that [[HistoryRepeats Ong himself might be redeveloping his interest in priesthood]].

* ''[[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables Rainbow Valley]]'' has the Meredith children, the four children of Ingleside's widowed minister. They aren't bad by any means, or at least no more mischievous than ordinary children, but are held up to such high standards by the community because of who their father is that whenever they try to meet those standards, it only leads them into more into trouble, leading them to impose fairly harsh punishments on themselves, leading to youngest daughter Una fainting in church and Carl to come down with pneumonia. They get better once their father realizes what's going on.

* In Korean romantic comedy ''Film/MarriageBlue'', Yi-ra is this. She's a good person, but she carefully conceals her life of partying, short skirts, and premarital sex from her strict Christian minister father. HilarityEnsues when her boyfriend knocks her up and they have to enter into an AltarTheSpeed marriage.

* Patrick in ''Film/{{Saved}}'', is consistently a nice guy, and pious, throughout the movie.

%%* The protagonists of ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'' are Preacher's stepchildren.

* Know that slightly suggestive 70's hit song "Ring My Bell"? Singer/writer Anita Ward is actually a preacher's daughter.

* One of the ''Literature/DearAmerica'' books, dealing with Japanese internment during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, is narrated by the daughter of a preacher who moves from Seattle to Idaho to stay with his (almost entirely Japanese) congregation when they are put into an internment camp.

* The March sisters in ''Literature/LittleWomen'' all fit, despite their flaws since they don't actively try to be bad, but [[ShrinkingViolet Beth]] fits the Angelic mold the best.

* ''[[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables Rainbow Valley]]'' has the Meredith children, the four children of Ingleside's widowed minister. They aren't bad by any means, or at least no worse than ordinary children, but are held up to such high standards by the community that whenever they try to meet those standards, it only leads them into more into trouble.

* ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'': Rumpole doesn't mention it often, but his father was a vicar, and his childhood home was a vicarage. As expected for the "diabolic" end, Rumpole has less use for organised religion than anyone else in the series, has a hot temper, and is fond of his minor vices, particularly wine, poetry, blue humour, and small cigars. As expected for the "angelic" end, he is a noble defender of the rights of the accused, with a strict and mostly self-imposed code of ethics.

* ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'': Rumpole doesn't mention it often, but his father was a vicar, and his childhood home was a vicarage. As expected for the "diabolic" end, Rumpole has less use for organised religion than anyone else in the series, has a hot temper, and is fond of his minor vices, particularly wine, poetry, and small cigars. As expected for the "angelic" end, he is a noble defender of the rights of the accused, with a strict and mostly self-imposed code of ethics.

Note that Roman Catholic[[note]]More precisely Latin Rite priests, as like their Orthodox colleagues, Eastern Catholic priests are allowed to have gotten married prior to ordination, thus able to have children; the same applies to Latin rite priests with special dispensations or who were widowers upon studying for the priesthood. This does not appear much in media, though, because most Catholic priests are Latin Rite [[/note]] priests are supposed to be celibate (as opposed to most Protestant and Orthodox Churches), so any examples from that denomination are going to be of necessity [[BastardBastard illegitimate]]. If the writer doesn't want to go down that route, one can either (a) substitute the Catholic for an Anglican (who are, in the words of the late Anglican Creator/RobinWilliams "Catholic Lite") or (b) substitute a priest for a deacon (married Catholic men are allowed to become deacons--indeed, most deacons who aren't in training for the priesthood are married--and deacons are held to a similar standard of conduct as priests).

* In the movie based on Michael Shaara's Civil War novel ''The Killer Angels'', one of the soldiers from the 2nd Maine regiment transferred to the 20th Maine is introduced to [[ColonelBadass Colonel]] [[BadassBookworm Chamberlain]] as a preacher's son and "the best damn cusser you ever heard. Knows more fine cuss words than any man in Maine!"
* ''Film/{{Footloose}}'' provides an example of this with Ariel Moore who rebels against the town's and her father's rules against dancing, alcohol, controversial books, etc, but at her core is a genuinely good person, and her [[DeathSeeker rebellious attitude]] is implied how she copes with [[spoiler: the loss of her older brother]].

* Jessica Lovejoy on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is a juvenile delinquent. Although Reverend Lovejoy himself is a pretty terrible preacher and an even worse father.

Subtrope of TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes and StrictParentsMakeSneakyKids (for the beastly kind).

* Holly in ''Film/KeepingMum'' is a minister's daughter who has casual premarital sex and has a new boyfriend every time she enters a scene.

* In old Russian novels, you can sometimes find "you son of a priest" as an insult.[[note]]Russian Orthodox priests are allowed to marry and have kids, unlike Catholic priests.[[/note]] Similarly, in Greece, there's a proverb that translates into: "Priest's kids, devil's grandchildren".

* ''[[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables Rainbow Valley]]'' has the Meredith children, the four children of Ingleside's widowed minister. They aren't bad by any means (well, no worse than ordinary children), but are held up to high standards by the community that whenever they try to meet those standards, it only leads them more into trouble.

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** The very first High Priest, Aaron (the brother of Moses), had two of his sons mess up in some way (Leviticus 10:1,2). The immediate pronouncement of a decree from YHWH about not drinking "wine or strong drink" when doing priestly duties has led some scholars to speculate that alcohol may have been involved.

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%%* Muisc/{{Madonna}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkxqxWgEEz4 Papa Don't Preach]]".

%%* Creator/SamKinison wasn't just a preacher's kid, he was a preacher himself before going into stand-up.

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