Mother..Oops father also !!
Mothers become ferocious beasts whenever their children encounters the slightest of discomfiture.Fathers-as mentioned by Chetan Bhagat in 2 States -prefers to play an unknown and unimportant(even repulsive) role in such affairs.Children from their very childhood understands the predicament and quickly take side with their mother. This reminds me of a joke I have recently heard-here it is :- A friend meets a friend after a long time. "So you are married and leading a happy family life?" "Sorry, not yet." Fact was ,that his mother rejected all the girls he introduced. The friend advised him to place a girl who resembled his mother in several ways. After few months- "So how is life? Hope my advice worked?" "Yes." "So happy and at the top of the world ?" "Not exactly..ahmm ..my father doesn't like my wife !"