How to Not Kill Your Character’s Parents
So your character is at an age where their parents are probably big presences in their lives, but you want/need the authority figures out of the way. You don’t want to use the oh-so-popular dead parents trope so… what do you do? Based on my own experiences (I regularly came home to an empty house even as young as five and six years old), as well as the experiences of some of my friends, here are ways to keep parents out of the way.
Note I and all of the friends I reference in this post have maintained pretty good relationships with our parents, even as adults- getting parents out of the way doesn’t require damaging the parent/child relationship. Sometimes stuff just comes between people.
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