How do your parents feel about your friends? This seems to be a universal thing in all places of the world; a guy or a girl makes friends, and the parents obviously have something to say about them. Of course this is especially apparent in people in high school, where one can say that a person's friends are most influential to their character.

My parents have always been surprisingly accepting of my friends growing up. In high school, my mother was usually impressed by the friends I brought home, and my closest friends usually have the full 'our house is your house' privilege. Not that I ever really did anything not to deserve them assuming I have good judgement, but even with my friends that got into trouble, their manners and generally good attitudes usually won my household over; "It would be great if Robert COMMITTED LESS CRIMES, but he takes care of his family and he has really good manners". It's weird like that. So all in all, I think my parents usually liked my friends.

How about you?

my parents were never assholes about this, but for some reason many of my friends parents were. i stopped visiting my best buds house cos his dad DISAPPROVED years ago, and we stopped talking more and more just cos it wasn't convenient.

that....that bastard killed our friendship.

I have a couple of friends and my mom is concerned about every one of them except for one. Its pretty insane.
Firstly, I have a rather LARGE friend named Justin, my mom thinks he's a fucking psycho who wants to kill me in my sleep. I have a short friend, who, because he is hyper, has been labeled by my mother as a serial rapist. I also have a pale friend, his name is Ryan but we call him marshmallow. He doesn't mind. My mom thinks he is going to turn out to be a serial killer too. But only because he's pale. My mom didn't even consider my other friend to be normal until he admitted that he hates his families religion... His family is Mormon.

I have only had issues with this one time. There was a girl I used to hang out with and they thought she was a tramp.. but she had a really bad family life so they were always really nice to her whenever she was around.

but yeah conversely this one friend of mine.. his mom hates me. I threw up at his house one time (in the toilet mind you... there was no mess) and generally I'm just kinda loud sometimes and they never tell me when shes around so I end up waking her up or something, and one time I parked my car funny in the driveway and then my friends and I went out together (not in my car) and she couldnt get out of her garage to go to work (she works the night shift) and so yeah I try not to be there when she is anymore. I mean I never do any of this stuff on purpose but she is just easily offended I guess.

My mom/dad is cool with my friends and my friends' moms/dads are cool with me.

my mom used to ask if people were "smokers" a lot

If I had black friends my parents would probably first ask me questions like "DO THEY USE SPECIAL SOAP TO WASH THEIR HANDS" and then they would scream at me for actually willingly conversing with a black person and forbid me from ever contacting "that animal" ever again.

Yeah my mom constantly asks me if the people I meet have enticed me with cigarettes or drugs yet

My mom/dad thought my old band did drugge.  Hated them kinda.

But honestly my parents are pretty cool about my friends-- i mean my dad thinks they are all GODLESS HELLBOUND ATHEISTS but he is nice at least.

My parents are usually pretty cool about it; they know that I'm a pretty smart, sensible dude and that if I've made that judgment then they must be alright. I can't think of any that they've really DISAPPROVED of.

my best buds mom is kind of snobbish and thinks that im a huge druggy now because someone OD'd on extacy here a while ago, doesnt really matter though because i rarely visit his house.

edit: ugh didn't read properly....my parents like pretty much all of my friends; my dad used to be pretty in league with some scumbags so he really knows what they're like most of the time, a good judge of character i guess you would say.

Because I have so many friends, my parents have mixed opinions of them all and this can cause friction as I am forced to choose between my friends and my parents.

My parents don't really remember my friends until they move away or are otherwise gone from my life.

<Mom> So, what about that nice boy you used to play with in elementary school?
<Craze> He dropped out of school and tried to blow up Wal*Mart.

<Dad> So, how's that little Christian boy you used to spend time with?
<Craze> He doesn't like guys that hit on him.

<Mom> So, tell me what's happening with your boarding school roommate.
<Craze> ...he was expelled for attempting to murder one of my black friends?

Maybe I just have bad judgement.....


EDIT: The roommate wasn't so bad because I didn't get a replacement! That was pretty awesome.

My parents don't really know a lot of my friends.  They do now that I used to work with them though, and they know one of them.

I've never heard them say anything negative about them, but I think it's because I have good judgment...  Then again, they don't know I go out there to drink...  sometimes, I usually just go there to hang out, and someone would happen to have left some beer there, and everyone raids it.

My family is too trustworthy, They'd leave me home alone with my girlfriend (she's my ex now, and I realize she was a HUGE mistake), and well...  We never had sex, but we still went pretty far (She was more of a friend with benefits...)

My mother fusses when I bring girls back, even if they are just friends, she will go into cliche' mother meets possible future wife mode and start asking loads of stupid questions, despite the fact I'm 17.

My mom was the same way...  that's why I'd never bring her to my place until we were serious or if it was just a group of friends.  I'm 20 now, and I bet if I did bring a girl home (g/f or normal friend) she'd probably still freak like that...  I think all moms do it.

Nowadays I couldn't care less what my mother thinks of my friends because she isn't really involved in my day to day life. Even if she did have a quarrel with one of my friends I wouldn't care anyway because, for as long as I can remember, she has taken issue with every single one of my friends. If it wasn't one small, stupid thing it was another and if I didn't like the people she approved of then I was, obviously, a terrible child. This continued right into high school and came to a head when she specifically told me that she didn't approve of my boyfriend. I (of course) married this boyfriend that she hated and was subsequently disowned.

It bears mention: the only reason my mother disliked my husband was because he was Canadian. I'm dead fucking serious.

My dad, on the other hand, was cool with my friends as long as they weren't total losers and even then he trusted my judgement. He still trusts me to choose my friends wisely.

Most of my friends have never met my family, for reasons which escape me now, but I would consider myself to be friends with many of my friends' parents.