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World's Strictest Parents

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  • Bile Fascination: The show has regained traction in popularity, if only in the interest of how 2000's parents pyschologically and emotionally abuse their children. The actual parents in how they enable their kids' addictions and behaviours, and the foster parents in how they strong-arm (often literally) the kids on how to behave at the risk of personal properties, rights and liberties.
  • Jerkass: Most of the foster parents are just as despicable as the kids. They are too extreme in their parenting methods, either too demanding, prying and self-righteous; one foster parent has the kids call them "mom" and "dad" even after the kid said he'd never call someone a "dad" after his dad walked out and they themselves haven't earned that right. One foster parent simply said "no piercings", which is laughably morally self-righteous and petty. One foster parent kept aggressively holding the kid's arm during their argument where he says that if the kid misbehaved he should get out and the kid said he would. There are also a phletora of unlawful detention, threat to minors, ransacking and robbing of personal property and emotional abuse to minors prevalent in the show.
    • Special mention has to be made for the father of the episode with Brian and Desiree. He is a self-proclaimed dictator who runs his house like a "dictator, not a democracy". He deals with Desiree like a hypocrite,saying not to yell and not to back talk, and proceeds to do just that. He threatens them with "taking away their individuality", their private stuff and their rights with a sense of moral superiority and fearmongering that is borderline call for child protective services. After their heated argument where he is very unreasonable,it is Desiree that offered the olive branch. He even forbade his own daughter from attending prom. Which begs the question of actually how good the foster parents of the show actually are.
    • The military dad who took away his own daughter's basic human rights because she didn't get good enough grades and threatened the children with the same. He said he'd withhold food and water from the girl if she doesn't comply.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: In the NZ India Episode, featuring Jasper and Arden, Jasper was insistent on smoking despite it being against the house rules, to which Nelani tells him that he should just go home if he won't make the (in her eyes) small sacrifice. However, smoking is a very difficult addiction to break, and Nelani was forcing Jasper to go cold turkey, so her insisting he not smoke for the duration of his stay is unreasonable.
  • Sympathy for the Devil: No doubt most of the kids are addicts and deadbeats, but most of them ended up that way because of parents too apathetic to care. When the case gets too severe, they dump them on to unknown strangers who suddenly impose their routine on them. Many are even forced to cultural changes that are objectively incompatible with them. Many are forced to have their addictions quit cold turkey, which anyone would know is very difficult. All the while the foster parents have nigh-impossible strict demands, including but not limited to no privacy, no personal property, humiliation, forced starvation and forced labor, all fringing on human rights violations.

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