Comments on: The Quick 9: 9 Bad Parents

By: adeen

adeen — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:07:51 +0000

And I am not familiar with all the bad parents listed up there. And Joe Jackson should be on this list! He put Michael and his four brothers in show business so that he can make money off of them and exploit their talents! He was also very abusive as well!What a horrible father!
And now, let’s go onto a father that is even worse-Ryan O’Neal. He beat his two children, Tatum and Griffin, gave them drugs and did drugs with them, and emotionally and mentally abused them as well. He hit on his daughter, Tatum at Farrah’s funeral because he didn’t recognize her! That is so nasty! He said that he hated his son, Griffin, which is terrible because how can you say that about your own son? And Michael and Dina Lohan, Joan Crawford, Jon Voight, Alec Baldwin, should be on this list! And last but not least, John Philips should have definitely be on this list! And he should be on the number one spot for sleeping with his daughter!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:41:39 +0000

re: Clara Bow- if you still have your research on Ms. Bow, I would be curious to see your notes/bibliography documenting what you have posted. thank you.

By: Scott-O

Scott-O — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:05:00 +0000

That’s nothing. I found out last year that I am my own father AND sister… and I fell down on some gravel a few weeks ago.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:22:00 +0000

Re: Clara Bow. Her mother was truly mentally deranged. While a teen, Clara woke up one night to see her mother standing over her bed and coming at her with a butcher knife. Clara avoided being stabbed but a lifelong case of insomnia never left her.

By: Old Tom

Old Tom — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:42:00 +0000

I nominate James Garner’s stepmother, Wilma, for dishonorable mention. From Wikipedia:
“She was a damn no-good woman”. Garner admitted that his stepmother punished him by forcing him to wear a dress in public and that he finally engaged in a physical fight with her, knocking her down and choking her to keep her from killing him in retaliation.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:03:00 +0000

There are 100′s of worse parents out there. The ones who offer their kids to child molesters. The ones who don’t care where their kids are or what they’re doing. The ones who beat, burn and sometimes kill their own children for small infractions like crying too much or wetting their beds.

By: Cait

Cait — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:15:00 +0000

I vote for the mother in A Child Called It as well. What a monster! That woman makes me truly greatful of my own parents.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:18:00 +0000

How bout the guy in Austria who kidnapped his daugher and hid her in a secret compartment in his basement for 20 or so years? He also raped her and had a few kids with her. that is a scum bag parent if i ever heard of one

By: D

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:50:00 +0000

What of the New Jersey couple who named all their kids after Hitler et al?
Even though they are just names, those very names hold a lot of bad memories/ “bad history” for lots of people.
The NJ parents are not as awful as some of those listed above, but I think they should get a piece of the bad parenting cake! (Especially since they were denied getting a cake with “Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler” written on it!)- yes, that was corny…

By: Norkio

Norkio — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:57:00 +0000

Elizabeth I of England had a horrible father…Henry VIII. Just knowing that your various stepmothers were beheaded, divorced, vilified, and imprisoned could have turned you into a sick and twisted individual.

How about Sadaam Hussein? He taught his boys Udey and Qusey (sp?) it was okay to rape, murder, torture, steal and lie. That’s some pretty shitty parenting in my book.