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This 3 page paper discusses the way in which parents on television have gone from being parents to being their children’s friends, and what this means for society. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Pop Culture: Parenting on TV Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 5/2010 Please Introduction TV parents today are vastly different from the parents who appeared
on TV screens years ago. This paper considers the parenting styles of todays characters as opposed to those found on older shows. Discussion Classic shows from the 1950s and 1960s
include programs like Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver; in both cases the family depicted was what is called a traditional "nuclear" family; the fathers went to work
while the mothers stayed home to raise the children. That model has disappeared almost completely from society, except for the upper class who can still afford to have only one
breadwinner. Most people, however, are working hard to make ends meet and need two salaries. But in those golden days, dad could go off to work while all the comedy
took place at home. June Cleaver in Leave It to Beaver, played by Barbara Billingsley, was "the perfect mom and housewife of the 1950s," content to stay home, clean the
house and cook, all of which she did with love and without complaint ("Top 10 TV Moms"). Today she might be considered a "slave," but in those days she was
"perfectly happy to dote on her sons and husband" ("Top 10 TV Moms"). The boys, Wally and Theodore (the Beaver) were smart, polite and reasonably well-behaved, and they turned out
well ("Top 10 TV Moms"). But there was never any doubt that they were the sons and she was their mother; they didnt hang out together, and they were not
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