Single Parent - Single Parents in Media

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:

    “Are God and Nature then at strife,
    That Nature lends such evil dreams?
    So careful of the type she seems,
    So careless of the single life;”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Most of us don’t have mothers who blazed a trail for us—at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women’s movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums—what should they be? how should they act?—that became our uncertainties.”
    —Anne Roiphe (20th century)

    “The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
    —Serge Daney (1944–1992)