Different parenting styles

So, I played my dysfunctional family today (well, dysfunctional parents, actually, the family in itself gets along well). Mom is pretty much ignoring the idea of parenting, doing as she always does: drinking, going to work (as a mixologist) and socializing with the daughters. The girls volunteer for community work whenever they get a chance and have become besties over this. They argued a lot as children, so I call that progress. The ambitious girl has bought a school project and finished it, the idealistic girl goes around counceling people on how to mend their relationships. Dad performed a 180 degree turn, with his nose constantly in a parenting book. I don't know how it happened, exactly, I'm probably so used to playing him off lot that I have no routines for when he's home and just shoved the book under his chin to give him something to do.
So at the end of the day I had much fun with the parenting pack once again, but I still don't use the actual parenting interactions much.