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...being played by a seven-week-old girl named Danica Fascella. (A perfect Murphy Brown, post-Quayle touch: Danica and her twin Cynthia were conceived in vitro and carried to term by a surrogate mother.) In triumphant autonomy, Murphy will raise the child as a single parent...
...1950s and '60s, TV broods were happy, homogeneous, parent-dominated units, unburdened by any problems that couldn't be solved by a heart-to-heart with Dad at the end of the episode. The era of Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver began to fade during the '60s, but it didn't really end until 1971, when All in the Family presented a more realistic, unsentimental picture of family life than TV ever had before. That ground-breaking series gave rise to a string of untraditional TV families, from Maude (who defied the conventions of TV momdom...
...huge success of The Cosby Show, which debuted in 1984, rejuvenated TV's interest in the traditional two-parent family. Today relatively stable, two- parent families make up the overwhelming majority on TV: nostalgic ones (The Wonder Years, Brooklyn Bridge), contemporary ones (Home Improvement, Major Dad), farcically expanded ones (Step by Step) and lovingly close-knit ones (Life Goes On). Even hip, teen-dominated shows like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Beverly Hills, 90210 have, at their center, strong families. The comparatively few single parents on TV nearly always have other caring adults around the house -- a trio...
...problem is that the American economy no longer provides enough decent jobs for low-skilled workers. A full-time minimum-wage job doesn't support a family of four at the poverty line. Even two-parent working families have a hard time making it at the low end of the pay scale...
...life have woven seamlessly into a single fabric. Her long battle as a woman to find an identity and equality is the same as the struggle for Palestinian identity and equality. She sounds the same at home as she does on a podium: there is no difference between the parent talking to her child, the spokeswoman jousting with the press, the Palestinian arguing for the cause. She has a rare ability to translate her people's longings into homely domestic terms, to turn an abstract dissertation on rights into a mother's plea for her children. That is real; that...