Parents are not always the best advice givers. Especially those with the "old" gender role ideas. Women should put up with everything the man dishes out as long as he is providing for the family.
My father told me last year that he would remain friends with my ex, if I was to break up with him as he was a good man and had treated me very well. Fast forward 6 months when ex's drinking, lying and infidelity was uncovered. Dad sings a different tune now. Ex has been disrespectful to my father in recent months, so once he saw it first hand he realized how bad it had gotten.
We are all no contact with ex now. HIS new fiance tries to contact one of us (my family) each week...crazy.