Single Parents in Media
Single parents have been depicted quite heavily in media. Below lists of examples.
Single mothers:
- Annie Hughes in The Iron Giant
- Tess Coleman in Freaky Friday (Widow)
- Mother Rabbit in Robin Hood (Widow)
- Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls
- Joyce Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Nancy Botwin in Weeds (Widow)
- Susan Meyer on Desperate Housewives
- Carey Martin on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (Divorced)
- Miranda Bailey on Grey's Anatomy
- Ellen Talbot on Wishbone (Widow)
- Kelly Taylor on 90210
- Amy Juergens on The Secret Life of the American Teenager
- Kate Austen on Lost
- Myra McQueen on Hollyoaks
- Melissa McCall on Teen Wolf (2011 TV series) (Divorced)
- Zira in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (Widow)
- Jackie Tyler in Doctor Who (Widow)
- Shelby Corcoran on Glee (Adopted)
- Sarah Braverman on Parenthood (TV series) (Divorced)
Single fathers:
- Danny Tanner in Full House (Widower)
- Richard Castle in Castle
- Goofy in A Goofy Movie
- Sheriff Stilinski in Teen Wolf (2011 TV series) (Widower)
- Robby Ray Stewart in Hannah Montana (Widower)
- Marlin in Finding Nemo (Widower)
- Great Prince Of The Forest in Bambi and Bambi II (Widower)
- Seely Booth in Bones
- Darkwing Duck/Drake Mallard on Darkwing Duck
- Charlie Swan in the Twilight Series (Divorced)
- Don Alejandro de la Vega on Zorro (Widower)
- Ben Cartwright on Bonanza
- Jimmy Chance in Raising Hope
- John Winchester (Supernatural) in Supernatural (TV series) (Widower)
- Allen Harper on Two and a Half Men
- Andy Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show" (TV Series) (Widower)
- Russell Lawrence on "Gidget" (TV Series) (Widower)
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Famous quotes containing the words single, parents and/or media:
“It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)