#cas and dean would be the WORST parents oh my godddd

[anassemblageofpassions]

*goes back on tumblr to see the bad dad discourse*

I’m going to scream yall oh my godddd. Ok so the thing is. They are all bad parents but the reason they are all bad parents is literally because dean is an active abuser and sam and cas keep enabling him and don’t stand up enough for jack to them. They are the battered spouses. Dean wants to put jack in the box. He forces sam to manipulate jack into it. Cas is trying to figure out whether they should put jack in the cage. They’re literally awful. All of them. Jack had an abusive father and two fathers who were victims of said abuser’s abuse and also enabled and occasionally aided the abuse aimed at him even if they didn’t like it. Jack deserved better than all of them.

Anyways. The actual ranking is something like this:

Tied for worst=Dean & Lucifer

Tied for mid=Sam & Cas

best=Kelly. And she didnt even get the chance to raise him beyond the womb.

Sam and cas are Bobby’s mother on the floor picking up the broken pieces of plate that dean threw there while he hurls abuse at his son. If jack had killed dean the way Bobby killed his father, they would have had the same reaction as his mother. They are the ones asking why he always has to provoke him, albeit they are nicer to him.

Dean is violently abusive to jack. This is textual. This is onscreen. It doesnt matter whatever reasons he had, i literally dont want to hear “he was grieving cas/mary/his freedom/etc/whatever” yes he was. All of that is true. That doesnt change the fact that he was violently abusive to jack, and that he was the one literally trying to kill/imprison him on multiple occasions.

[sobsicles]

dean and cas would fight about every little thing as parents. cas gives jack an allowance and dean's like, "dude, he's four, just let him have whatever he wants," and cas is like, "no, dean, it's important to teach him about finances," and dean's like, "finances are stressful; he's a kid, he doesn't need to worry about that stuff," and cas is like, "it's not a good idea to spoil him," and dean starts getting irritated, like, "he's four years old, just buy him what he wants," and cas is starting to get annoyed too, like, "being frugal isn't a sign of neglect, and moderation is—" and dean's just like, "do you know how many kids go without, cas? he doesn't have to, and he shouldn't, so just—" and cas huffs and gets pissy and says, "are you thinking of this logically, or does this all sprout from the struggles of your youth that haunt you?" and then then they're yelling at each other for an hour when all this started because jack said he wanted a tiny hat and cas said there was a budget and he'd have to wait.