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Originally Posted by Shadow5YA

Passivity isn't admirable, and the mother is pretty much entirely passive. She seems to tolerate everything, but she also doesn't take an active role in anyone's lives either. She cooks and cleans the house -- pretty much a stock housewife. While the mother isn't as strict as the father, she's definitely not a friend or a confidant to Kirino either.

Until Kyousuke discovered her eroge hobby, Kirino was not close to anyone in the family. She talked with her modeling and school friends, and that's about it.

Agreed. I studied some Psychology in University, and its there that I learned about the four styles of parenting.

Now, any individual parent's parenting style won't necessarily fit nice and tidy into one of the four categories, but they do tend to at least lean more towards one of the four.

Kirino's mother strikes me as having a Permissive, or even Uninvolved, style in her parenting.

It's important, I think, to remember that a parent's first job is not to be their children's friend, but to be their children's parent. A parent that literally tolerates everything would be a bad parent. Parents should set at least some guidelines for their children.

A good parent avoids both extremes on the Authoritarian/Permissive scale. Sadly, a strong case can be made that Kirino's parents occupy the two opposite extreme ends on that scale. Her father leans a bit too strongly towards the Authoritarian parenting style, in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Himeji

I think that's the main reason why she's playing those imouto games - she wants to be that close to her brother as the imoutos in the game. That does not mean neccessarily that she also is deeply in love with him and would want an intimate relationship with him, just that (at least) she is missing being close to her brother.

Well, we both agree that this is a likely factor, at least.

Decent? Hardly

I mean as a man in general, not necessarily as a father specifically. His parenting style does leave something to be desired, in my opinion.

However, he seems to be a fairly honest, conscientious, and responsible person. And while he has a very stern exterior, he did budge a fair bit to his son's arguments to him. He does have a heart.

Caring? It seems he cares about Kirino a bit at least (although he doesn't seem to show that), but about Kyousuke? No. He never seemed to have cared much about him in the first place, and after Kyousuke "revealed" himself as an otaku, he stopped caring for him altogether.

He cares a lot about Kirino. If he didn't, he wouldn't care what hobbies she had.

He doesn't appear to care much about his son, though, which is disconcerting.