Quote Originally Posted by liegeprime View Post
RE: Where are the parents of the kids in the series?

This also occured a lot in Cybertron series, they even went to another dimension! Some parents these kids have!! Someone should point this to Hasbro that they should stop making TFs stories with too young children going off meeting Strangers like er I dont know Giant f%$@$#g robots from outer space and not telling an adult about it!! Bad influences on young children watching this can easily occur. It's like it's teaching them it's "okay" not to even let your parents know where you are, who you are with and dissapear for like days on end, dont attend school like your supposed to and gallivant like irresponsible brats. No wonder truancy is no big deal with kids these days, even supposed to be adult writers don't care to correct these errors in the stories. At least in G1 Spike was already old enough and working (with his dad as well) that he isn't just loafing around with the Autobots. These kids are just irresponsible, truant brats. Shame on the parents which are equally if not more irresponsible for not even looking after their kids. I mean for disspearing like that they shouldve been grounded for eternity!!
In the new animated Sari is not going to school but is home tutorial, and Prof Sumdac is really more work absorbed so it explains it a little. I shake my head on the parenting shown on all these series.
Yeah. It is kind of weird, this parental absence, especially since their offspring are fighting giant space gods and giant evil robots. You'd think they'd think twice if they were asked "Mum, can I go fight the planet-eater Unicron?"

At least Animated gets it right, with Prof Sumdac being too wrapped up in his work to keep Sari out of trouble, and so trusting the Autobots to take care of her. Even so, they do show he's concerned for her-'Survival of the Fittest' comes to mind.