Were/Are your parents good parents?
 

They got better with age...mom is no longer with us dad is still around.

In general I think they tried, but let their own needs override those of their childrens' needs at times.

My parents were AWESOME!!!! My sig is what my mom used to say to me as a kid.

My father's an asshole and my stepmother is cow.

My mother's awesome though, but I didn't grow up with her around.

My parents are great. Not the wealtiest ppl but TONS of love when I was a kid. :thumbsup :thumbsup

My parents are the best, and as I get older, we all get closer. I'm lucky to have my parents still together. :thumbsup

My mother is an overbearing, egotistical, holier-than-thou pothead who would put out for a joint. She is neglectful, abusive, and should have been in prison years ago.

I have no idea who my real father was. That should tell you something about my mother.

My grandmother raised me. I miss her terribly. An educator, she felt that life was not worth living if one couldn't learn something new on a daily basis. I was raised to love learning, love new experiences, and gather knowledge in any manner available to me.

She died of liver cancer in 1997, 8 weeks to the day after her diagnosis. She spent much of that bedridden. I miss her.

I can never ask for better parents! They are the best! :thumbsup

No ones perfect.. I think mine did alright in retrospect, even if I hated them from 13-20. :)

My parents is the best parents in the world. My dad is always behind, giving us all the support we need, financially and emotionally.My mom is kinda the shock-absorber type.

My parents are awesome. My mom died when I was 16 and my daddy was really messed up about it for awhile but met my step mom and she is also great, so hey, I don't have any complaints. I only hope that I can do even have as well with my own kids.

mom yes, which i realized many years later

dad, not really i never saw much of him and haven't spoken to him in 2-3 years and haven't seen him in over 10

My parents are great. They always were. My dad's got a short temper, and we were never really close, but he was never a bad father. Just not very open emotionally, and not so easy to talk to. It's different now. We talk quite a lot, and my mom and i have always had a great relationship.

my mom is my best friend, always have been , always will be. my dad was a bad father my whole life but since i turned 16 yrs old, hes been trying his hardest to do right by me and my sister and hes an awesome dad now . :)

Both my parents are recovered alcoholics, they've been dry for 40 yrs.

I was 13 when they quit. Before they stopped drinking, they were terrible parents, fighting every single night while I cringed in my bed staying awake listening to them for fear something really bad would happen.

They got much better when they quit, but 13 is pretty old to try to recover myself. I did, but it took almost my whole life.

I love my parents, and they love me. I forgive them for what they did, even though I still have problems because of it.

My mom was a bitch and my dad was the biggest asshole it has ever been my pleasure to wish cancer upon. My mom has changed a lot over the years but now she treats her foster kids 10000 times better than she ever treated us. It kind of pisses me off but hey, that's life for you.

Cant say that mine were. They pawned me on my grand parents when i was 2 and i have not seen them since.

This seems like it is becoming more and more common. Pretty sad but I think if it ends up that way it is probably for the best, as crappy as that may be.

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Definitely, which I realize more the older I get.

I was 9 the last time I saw them Pawned me off too...

My father died 17 years ago. He was a great dad and I miss him a lot. Its hard to get over losing a father. Leaves an empty spot in your heart forever.

He worked a lot. I grew up in Philly and we had a place in NYC too and he worked in NYC and would stay up there during the week and then come home on the weekends so I didn't see as much of him as I would have liked.

My mother was overly protective and drove me nuts. She was great raising us. She got pissed off when I was 20 and said I only wanted to do 2 years of college and finish getting my degree later on and told her I wanted to move out to LA. After that our relationship was distant and I only saw her and my dad when they came out to visit or I flew back on holidays.

After my dad died my mother and I started to get into a lot of arguments. She really got weird losing him. Like major weird. Wouldn't throw away his clothes. Kept his briefcase at the door like he was coming back one day. As far as I know she still has his suits hanging in the closet to this day. Really got bizarre. They were together for 30 years so I guess that happens.

I'm not on speaking terms with her right now cause we got into another big argument a couple months ago over a situation in my family where I got reamed in a large family real estate investment.

I'm really not into family any more. So many have passed on now.

My sis is the only one I'm really still close to and we call each other once or twice a week.

My dad went out for a packet of cigs and never came back when I was 8..... (seriously)

My mum is an alcholic and my childhood was was pretty fucked..... but we have put that behind us and we are closer than ever

We live on oppsite sides of the planet now.... that probably helps!!

My parents are awesome... on my 16th birthday (just got my liscense) they surprised me with a new Mustang... they've done so many other great things for me that I don't even have time to mention.

My father was a Vietnam vet turned hippy, got his brain fucked up real good in Vietnam, had the "priveledge" of killing children for our government while there

My mother is a very simple woman but worked her ass off and continues to do so to this day. This is a woman who had her house burn down and still showed up for work the next day.

MY step parents are both great people who've made my parents better people than they were when they were together with each other

i love my parents...

my dad use to be a major asshole and when i was 17 he hit me, and i punched him in the mouth.. ever since then he grew a new found respect for me as a growing man and now we are close..

my mother and I had our bad times, but now she and I are very close, she is the best mother i could ask for. as for my father too... everyone has their bad times, my parents and I are way over it... now i have a huge family and i love them all

my father and his wife Deirdre, she is a great person too, she is the mother of my half sister in which i love to death.

my mother and her husband Steve, he is one of the funniest men i have ever met, and he really shows the love and took me and my brother Ryan in as "sons" even though he has 3kids of his own living with us and we all dont always get along (referring to all the kids) but he is always there for me when i need him.


man i hate xmas... too many fucking parents:1orglaugh

mine were great

My parents never provided for me very well, But my mother is an angel that would do anything she could for me. My father however is a life long fuckup and has been in jail twice since I was 15 ( I am 22 now) he was never there for me growing up... far too busy with the beer in his hand.

i have good parents, even i havent been w/ my father for the last 14years...he's still the best for me...my mom is also great, even she's really annoying sometimes, they're still the best!

i've been fortunate enough to have two of the best parents. unfortunately my dad doesn't talk to me because of some petty shit. but i love my mom and i must say they both did a hel of a job raising me.

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Not really surprising answers. I think most people that get into this industry are fucked up some way or another...

They were great and I miss them terribly. :(

There's a really good documentary about this happening in the black community called "Big Mama."

But of course it just doesn't happen in the black community, when my parents got divorced me and my siblings had to go live with my grandparents for awhile.

yes i've great parents...

:glugglug thanks mom & dad :)

Both of mine split 1 year I was born. Today we are not so tight, we talk and visit but not like normal tight nit famlies. Wife a I plan to change that around with our kids.:thumbsup

my parents are great and i love 'em both :thumbsup

That' sucks :(

My parents are great looking always for the best for me .
I respect and love them and I never can pay them back what they did for me .... so much love :thumbsup

My parents werent the best parents in the world, but they raised me and my siblings as well as they could. My dad is a biker and he and my step mom loved to party at that point in their lives.. so I am sure things with us kids got put on the backburner alot. We could have been shown more direction..but I don't care..I am alive and kicking and have no regret and don't look back saying "what if my parents were normal".

My real mom is wonderful.. but my dad wouldnt let us see her for about 8 years out of my life.. so she and I didnt get to have a good realtionship till i was 16.. its still going strong.

My family, for as dysfunctional as we all were are very tight these days. We all grew up and realized how much we meant to one another. :thumbsup

My parents are good peeps, plus it doesn't hurt that I am fucking AWESOME all by myself. Only problem in my family is my fucking sister (her brain got wired wrong apparently).

All in all life is good bitches

My Dad left when I was 4 and my sister and I were raised by my mom. She worked at a shitty job and struggled to feed and clothe us, but we never went without anything. She would go without a winter coat so that my sister and I would be warm.

When I was 14, mom was 40, she went back to college and now she's a teacher. She's an AWESOME role model, and as much as she still drives me crazy sometimes, she's the best anyone could ever ask for.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer this January and she's still undergoing treatment. She has a 30-50% chance of survival but her doctors are optomistic that she's in that group. She still has a tough road ahead but we're working as a family to get through it. I'm not ready for her to die.