In this chapter, I will discuss how parents are biologically driven to protect, care for, and motivate their children to success. These same biological drives may also hurt children, especially in the case of stepparents. Parents face considerable social pressure when deciding how to raise their child. Many parents get trapped in fads and in the idea that there is a perfect way to raise a child – and some ways may indeed do more harm than others. When taking parental fads to the extreme, parents run into the risk of harming their own children. Sometimes parents may abandon their own offspring, whether it be because of lack of resources or interest, which could be seen as a villainous action. Adoption can also be seen as potentially heroic. Sometimes, children with villainous parents may choose to remove themselves from the parent-child relationship. This chapter will also discuss and define the difference between heroic, villainous, good, and bad parents, and it will offer a theoretical account of the spectrum of good and bad parenting.