when she took Veronica's college tuition money and ran away my hatred was cemented.

Bad parents, particularly bad mothers -- or overly-involved-living-their-life-through-you-mothers. Yes indeedy.

My feelings re: Daddy Winchester. Strict. Gruff. Obsessive. Proud. I don't buy the worst fanonized versions of him or the most loving fanonized versions of him. I think his obsessive nature led him to be both a worse and better parent than he otherwise would have been.