18 Fictional Parents Who Are Terrible At Parenting
These parents are lucky fictional universes don't have child protection services.
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Look, we get it -- when it comes to fiction, we're supposed to suspend our disbelief about what's happening on the screen. Still, though; when you take a look back on some of fiction's greatest parents, you have to wonder why we suspended our disbelief.
Because had these parents been real, someone would've taken their kids away a long time ago.
![CRACKEDCON Cliff and Clair Huxtable are considered by many to be TV's best parents. But lets not forget... Clair was uptight and controlling; especi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/8/6/617286.jpg?v=2)
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![CRACKED.COM Hey, you know our baby, with the unknown, potentially catastrophic superpowers? Is it cool if we leave him with a sitter who'd have absol](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/2/0/617120.jpg?v=2)
![Ferris Bueller's parents may be a little naive, but dammit do they love him... ...to the point where they ignore his many unexcused school absences an](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/8/2/617282.jpg?v=2)
![In Jurassic World, Zach and Gray's parents are amazingly negligent. Their mother has to know her sister is work-obsessed and bad with kids, but she pu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/8/5/617285.jpg?v=2)
![INSTEAD OF IMMEDIATELY HATCHING A PLAN TO GET MOM AND DAD BACK TOGETHER... the Wact DisneyPictur PARENT Pictures TRAP ..MAYBE ANNIE AND HALLIE SHOULD](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/2/617542.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDC COM In KICK-ASS, Big Daddy puts his daughter constantly in mortal peril... BD HG In the comics it S explained that he did it because he was b](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/8/3/617283.jpg?v=2)
![GRAGKEDCON AUNT MAY SEEMS LIKE QUITE A COOL AUNT TO BE RAISED BY. MAYBE A BIT TOO COOl... ...SINCE SHE ALLOWS HER NEPHEW TO DASH OFF ABROAD WITH A MAN](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/7/1/617271.jpg?v=2)
![SPLINTER MIGHT NOT BE THE TURTLES' BIOLOGICALI FATHER, BUT HE'S STILL THEIR FATHER. ...A FATHER WHO RAISED THEM TO BE CHILD SOLDIERS IN HIS WAR AGAINS](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/1/7/617117.jpg?v=2)
![Carl Winslow from Family Matters has no problem tolerating Steve Urkel's shenanigans CRACKED.COM As well as allowing him to freely sexually harass his](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/1/5/617115.jpg?v=2)
![EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND. EXCEPT HIS KIDS, PROBABLY. He IS ALMOST NEVER SEEN SPENDING ANY TIME WITH THEM, AND WHEN HE DOES, HIS MISTAKES ARE A COMIC RE](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/7/617107.jpg?v=2)
![LOST Michael is remembered as an awesome dad to his son Walt despite the fact that he plucked him from the relative safety of the island to sail on a](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/8/617108.jpg?v=2)
![how i CRACKED.CONT met your mother Marshall and Lily Good parents don't leave their kid under somebody else's care just to visit the bar almost every](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/6/617106.jpg?v=2)
![In Ant-Man, Scott Lang is depicted as a good guy at heart who tries to do the best for his daughter. But his actions lead a super-powered villain to h](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/0/617100.jpg?v=2)
![the PURSUIT of HAPPYNESS Chris Gardner is shown as the uber example of the sacrifices a father should make for his children... But in truth, the boy w](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/2/7/3/617273.jpg?v=2)
![IN GAME OF THRONES, NED STARK IS CONSIDERED PERHAPS THE ONLY SANE, VEL-HEADED PARENT. But he intentionally misleads Jon about what the Night's Watch i](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/9/6/617096.jpg?v=2)
![In Frozen, the trolls warn that Elsa's powers can be beautiful... but pose great danger unless she learns to control her fear. COY) So her father tell](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/9/5/617095.jpg?v=2)
![IN A TOWN PLAGUED BY MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES, PARENTS APPARENTLY HAVE NO CLUE THEIR MIDDLE SCHOOL-AG KIDS ARE SNEAKING OUT IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT... .](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/0/9/7/617097.jpg?v=2)