The film's director Donald Crombie said in a 18th December 1998 interview with film critic and historian Peter Malone: ''I think one of my best films was a film I made in Adelaide called 'Parents', which was about parenting, which was made for Community Welfare. It was just made on tape, it was a very cheap production but it was dramatised. We've had four kids and we had probably the usual problems, and I wrote this from the heart and it was designed to show to parents, when their kids go into teens, what they're likely to expect. I think it's one of the best films I've ever made, because of course no-one has ever seen it, apart from - it's shown in community groups in South Australia.''