I seem to share the same thoughts as most other people in our group - Fathers always seem to be the ones to blame for the encounters between the daughter and the Beast. The mother is either not present in the story or plays no significant role in what happens to the daughter. This makes sense because back when these stories were being told daughter's were like property that the father was in charge of marrying off.
The only reason I can think of for a parent to need to be present in these stories is so they can stand as a symbol for the childhood the daughter would be leaving behind once she was married. It also gives us someone we expect to fear for her life or her innocence when she goes to be with the beast - it increases the sense of danger surrounding a humans involvement with an uncontrollable creature.
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