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There's often a scene where the kids are in trouble and the parents finally find out and ask why did the kids not come to them about it. To that, the parents are ''always'' stunned to hear that their own children fear their reaction more than the trouble itself and cannot under stand how their role in family discipline made them an object of fear that helped allow the problem to escalate into a crisis.
The flip side is [[Open-Minded Parent]], where they figure out what their kid is up to... And seem strangely untroubled by it. Compare and contrast with [[Mama Bear]], who knows what's happening in her child's life, and nothing will hurt her child. Then there's the [[Reasonable Authority Figure]], who may not believe everything they hear, but will invariably hear them out and humor them.
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* ''[[The Batman]]'': Although not a strict example, Batgirl is dismayed to discover that Batman knows everything about crime in Gotham city, but wasn't even aware the college they were staking out is the college she now attends.
** Commissioner Gordon, as above, who thinks it's a weird coincidence Batgirl has the same shade of hair as his daughter, is also an example.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': His ghost-hunting parents have no idea he's half-ghost, even though their ghost-hunting equipment has identified him as such more than once. Sam's parents are more oblivious on
* Inverted in ''[[El Tigre the Adventures of Manny Rivera]]'': Manny's parents are both well aware that he is a superhero. His father is a little overprotective about it. His mother can't handle it at all; she hyperventilates, and actually left because she couldn't handle it when her ''husband'' superheroed {{spoiler|this is the result of her having been a danger junkie during her own superheroing days}}. In fact, Manny's grandfather is a super''villain'' and is often trying to convert Manny to evil.
* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' does this in spades.
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** [[Word of God]] states that they notice Stewie saying and doing everything we the viewer see, but because he is a baby, they do not take him seriously.
* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' is the [[Secret Keeper]] variety. Mac's mother doesn't notice that Mac goes to Fosters EVERY DAY. Her having "a million jobs" partially justifies this, but there was a reason the show's writers got [[The Unintelligible]] Coco to explain how he convinced his mother to let him go on a TRIP TO EUROPE with people she's never met.
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'': Kim's father is a little oblivious. When it comes to boys, this is by choice. When it comes to
* ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'': Juniper Lee's parents seem also in the dark about her being the [[The Chosen One|Te Xuan Xe]]... due to Secret Keeper.
* The entire show ''[[South Park]]'' is based on this. The parents are always too busy or don't care what the kids are doing. In [[The Movie]], a ''war'' was started because of this.
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== Real Life ==
* Christiane F [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_F.*\] was addicted to Heroin by the age of 13, never mind what she had to do to get the money for the drugs. Her mother took over a year to notice. After she was discovered, quit, got addicted again, quit again and went to live with her father, she was soon re-addicted and HE didn't notice either.
** Admittedly, at this time drugs from marijuana to heroin were something many people didn't even know it existed, let alone how to recognize someone under its influence, let alone squared to know what to do then.
** Very true. And there are sections where the mother is interviewed where she said how helpless she felt/was. However, things started when Christiane and her friend went out clubbing all night telling each parent they were sleeping over at each others'. That is the sort of thing a parent should keep track of (I'll just phone up your friends' mum to thank her for looking after you). And her father's strategy to keep Christane off drugs was to give her a responsibility (looking after pigeons) that wouldn't allow her the time to scrounge drugs/money for drugs. Yet he seemed not to check whether or not the pigeons were actually being taken care of (they weren't).
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