Watching television, I have come to notice that something the media uses to depict a working class is a household with a single mother. An example of this is a show called "One Day at a Time."
Most of my life I grew up underneath the care of a single mother household. My mom was the sole caretaker for my sister and I until I was about 12 or 13. I do not find that being brought up in a single mother household is any disadvantage, or anything to be negatively stigmatized. My mom worked while my sister and I were in school, and she was able to buy and pay off a house for us all on her own.
You'd think that my sister and I suffered from a lack of time with our mom, but that was not the case at all. She spend every evening and weekend with us and helped us with our school projects and we ate dinner together every night and she was there at all of our school programs.
I feel that it is very unfair to look at single mother households negatively. I know from first hand experience that it is not a bad thing to just have a mom, and that a family can flourish under those circumstances.
I agree with this statement that single mothers are negatively portrayed on the media. I would also like to add that when there is representation for them it's often not given the full justice that it deserves. Struggles and hurtles that single mothers have to overcome are often erased rom media and not presented at all. This is extremely frustration considering the demographics of single mothers in America. Even the documentary 'Class Dismissed" only barely touched on this problem with representation and I wish it had explored it further in depth.
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