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It's time for shows like Call Your Mother to end the TV trope of the needy empty-nest moms


https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/02/02/tv-moms-empty-nest-stereotypes/

"Happy, independent older mothers are few and far between," says Michele Weldon of the Kyra Sedgwick ABC comedy. She adds that "a prominent cultural narrative for American mothers is a binary choice of Absent Monster or Snowplow Mom. The stereotypes stretch from a detached, self-absorbed woman to a boundaryless dope, meddling and at times arriving uninvited with meatloaf."

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That's a crap site you linked to. There are giant ads over the article, so someone can't even read the entire thing.

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