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There has not been much research on Javanese Gibbons (Owa Jawa). There have been no studies on parental-care in Owa-Jawa, especially about rough-and-tumble-play. This is a means of parent learning to children to protect themselves from predators and to survive in the wild. We want to find out how the pattern of childcare in Owa-Jawa when they are in captivity. In searching for data, we used literature studies to find out about wild-life data on Owa-Jawa, and used observations to determine parenting patterns in captivity. Observations were carried out in ..., in West Java. We use habituation methods in gathering data. We found that the rough-and-tumble-play was also carried out by the Owa-Jawa father towards his female offspring, in captivity. We conclude that there is a difference in the pattern of care for Owa Jawa in the wild that we found in the literature from those data we found Owa-Jawa in captivity. We need further observation regarding the causes of changes in this parenting pattern.