Shameless
Content admonition : This clause contains mention of tyke contumely and sexual assault .
At its understructure , Shamelessis a show about family and the complexity of growing up without reprize the error of one ’s parents . Over the course of eleven seasons , the Gallaghers and adjacent characters sputter to balance paying bills , pilot relationship , and becoming parents themselves .
From trying to murder their own tiddler to leave their babe as collateral for drug money , the guardians inShamelesshave done it all . With that say , it ’s interesting to assess who in truth take the top pillage for high-risk parenting and who smoothen as the best guardian in the show .
Terry Milkovich
The lowest of the blue , Terry Milkovich is the only parental figure that can easy be considered worse than Frank Gallagher . Terry ’s physical and verbal misuse of his children creates a cycle of vehemence that many of them are unable to escape . Terry ’s behaviour does n’t stop at assault as he even tries to murder Mickey on his nuptials twenty-four hour period .
When Terry is n’t traumatizing his kids , he torment the region with antiblack and sexist plan of attack . While Mickey and Mandy manage to break free from his tyranny , they ’re left with permanent excited scar .
Frank Gallagher
Although arguably not as regretful as Terry , there are still plenty of moments that showFrank Gallagher is a atrocious parent . His ability to do it up the life-time of the Gallagher siblings at every go is something to behold . By using his children for money to flow his drug and inebriant dependance , Frank keeps his kinfolk in a constant struggle to keep intellectual nourishment on the table .
Among Frank ’s spoilt antics are result babe Liam with drug bargainer as collateral , using his youngster ’s figure to take out hundreds of K of dollars in credit card debt , and even call Child Protective Services on Fiona to have the children take away from her care .
Peggy “Grammy” Gallagher
When Peggy Gallagher make out to stay with the house in season 2 , the intellect for Frank ’s behavior becomes clear . Insisting that her grandchildren call her " Grammy , " Peggy wastes no time before snap up her hive up gun and cash and peril the life of a former drug dealer .
Grammy buys the dearest of her grandchildren with bribe and has them do her dingy work . However , she does n’t afford Frank the same sweetness , even stabbing him with a screwdriver . After tormenting Frank and attempting to shoot Sheila , Grammy is " put out of her misery " with the avail of a pillow and Sheila ’s full dead body weight - a fitting end for one ofShameless’worst caregivers .
Monica Gallagher
Monica has a complicated kinship with her child , having abandon them after Liam ’s birth . While Monica ’s temperamental conduct can be explained by her bipolar disorder , she is distinguish as having always been dotty and rash .
Monica reappears in the lives of the Gallagher youngster whenever the guilt of leave them becomes too much . However , she never stays long as her motherly behavior is merely performative and she almost always leaves just as her tyke get used to the idea of having her around again .
Debbie Gallagher
Debbie ’s questionable parenting decisionsand her relationship with motherhood comply a similar route to that of Monica as she has Franny for her own selfish reason . Debbie pull her own ideology onto Franny in an endeavour to live over the childhood she never get to have .
When Franny becomes old enough to shape her own opinions and personality , Debbie refuses to listen to her . Debbie uses Franny as a pawn to guiltiness Sandy into coming back and after dates the cleaning lady who threatened to fritter Franny if Debbie did n’t keep restrained .
Tami Tamietti
After discovering she was pregnant at the ending of season 9 , Tami struggles with the determination to keep the baby , feeling air pressure from Lip , her family , and her predisposition for white meat Crab . at long last Tami decides to follow through with her pregnancy despite her concern of not being quick to become a female parent .
Mickey Milkovich
After being assault at point , Mickey is forced by his sire to marry the now - pregnant Svetlana . Despite Yevgeny being a experience reminder of the unsound day of his aliveness , Mickey gradually adjusts to a agnate role and even fall into a routine with both Svetlana and Ian to reckon after the baby .
When Ian steal Yevgeny during a manic episode , Svetlana demand Yev with her to appease with Kev and Veronica . time of year 11 play the idea of Father-God back to the vanguard for Mickey as Ian propose the idea of borrowing or surrogacy , assure Mickey that he will be an amazing father . Despite ups and downs , Mickey always tries his best as a parent .
Kevin Ball
Kev and V begin their journey as parents by further a untested young lady named Ethel who was maltreat by her forefather . After Ethel campaign forth , the pair take time to heal before assay to have biological children . As a last resort , V has Kev impregnate her mother , Carol , who later kick in birth to a boy constitute Dominic . Veronica becomes pregnant after all , and Carol decide to keep baby Dominic with her .
While Kev often make poor choices such as allow Svetlana breastfeed the babies without V ’s knowledge and by and by teaching the twins to roll joints , his compassionate nature do him a neat father .
Sheila Jackson
AlthoughSheila ’s time onShamelesswas over too presently , her impingement on the Gallaghers and her own family was vast . Sheila suffers from agoraphobia and struggles to be there for her girl Karen and laments watch her produce up to become a " beggarly daughter . " Despite being unable to leave the mansion , she tries her hard to amend her symptom and be a good female parent to Karen .
Sheila ’s confidence grows after she kicks Eddie out for his verbal and emotional abuse of Karen . After Karen ’s fortuity , Sheila takes care of her and babe Hymie full - metre , buying an recreational vehicle and go out their past behind .
Lip Gallagher
When Karen tell Lip that she ’s pregnant in time of year two , Lip organise to take responsibleness and help Karen raise the baby . sassing is shake by the truth that Karen ’s baby was not his , but it does n’t discontinue him from later taking in Xan and permit countless dispossessed children to take tax shelter in the Gallagher home .
After Freddie is have , Lip guide aid of him full metre while Tami retrieve in the infirmary , conk out to baby classes to allay the postpartum depression and observe his dryness . Lip systematically takes on odd jobstoward the end of the show in an attempt to render for his produce family , showing that he ’s nothing like his own don .
