When I attempt to make paerents 2 objects together, the second one (child) change its normals, but only when playing,… in 3d window, all seems to be OK.
Can you send the .blend that you are having this problem, I can think in some things but Im not shure, check if the ztransp on the materil is on and turn it off, try to press ctrl+n on the child object when on edit mode, press W on the child object and choose flip normals, on edit mode try to select all faces and press w and remove dobles, try to apply all the modifiers of your child object.
Try this if nothing work out, try then to send the .blend.