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It's time for shows like Call Your Mother to end the TV trope of the needy empty-nest moms
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"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."
TOPICS: Call Your Mother, ABC
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