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Single Dads on TV
(and how they can raise children)
by Whitney Brennan
Some TV shows, it takes more than one to a single father raising children. I mean, we all know that men can not raise children. Right?
Well, if you look at television, the answer is that they can-not just on their own. So, as the stereotype goes, parenthood comes naturally to women and men need help. And in some cases, the help comes in the form of a wilder, more rebellious man. Not only can the man apparently responsible care of children on his own, but he invokes the help of someone even less capable than himself. Rag fathers provide great entertainment, but what does this say about men as single parents?
How many people does it take to raise children a father? On "Everwood" (now on the long list of canceled shows), single dad Andy relies on at least three others to feed his son and daughter. His neighbor Nina, his doctor friend of Harold and Harold's mother any advice to waive a parental challenged Andy. Occasionally eldest son Ephram steps in.
And, surprisingly, appears today on single fathers are not that much different of the one we viewed years ago.
Remember "Full House"? It was half hour comedy that ran 1987-1995. Danny Tanner's wife slain by a drunk driver, So he must raise his three daughters. Danny's best friend Joey and his brother-in-law Jesse to move the tanners and finally two additional fathers for the girls. Jesse married after Danny's talk show co-host Rebecca, who also assists in raising the children. Danny is clearly the most able of the group, but he still needs help. And help comes of aspiring comic Joey, who bears cartoon character pajamas, and Uncle Jesse, a rock musician (allegedly) wearing black leather and that is very interested in women.
"My Two Dads", a show that ran from 1987 to 1990 was about two men raising a child, hence the title. As a teenager Nicole's mother dies, she leaves her in the custody of the father of Nicole's, which Nicole has never met. However, Mom also leaves Nicole in the custody of another ex-boyfriend, Joey. The strange decision for a daughter left with two former boyfriends after death is not the point, although it is probably the reason for the short life span of the show. The point is that a caregiver is not enough when a man. Michael, the father of Nicole's, needs the help of Joey and a female judge who oversees the education to raise his daughter. Joey is a carefree artist lady has many friends. And this message that some fathers can not fly solo TV penetration continues.
"Two and a Half Men" is about two men, Alan and his brother Charlie, Alan's son Jake who raise most often on weekends. Alan's ex-wife Judith is usually their son during the week. Grandma Evelyn helps with parenting. Wild Charlie is working on a life of a rich bachelor when his brother comes to live with him in his beach house. Charlie is a caretaker of sorts, but the parents in a way that only Jake a stereotypical man would do.
In the series' pilot episode, Charlie 10-year bonds by Jake him to play his games and poker with him to meet girls. In a season two episode, Jake is in danger of getting suspended from school for giving his teacher the finger. Charlie tries to save the day by wooing the teacher. Although the father Jake's Alan is not as wild as Charlie in one episode, Alan asks a woman to marry him after knowing them only three days. Charlie, the brother who caused the most problems, is wise in this situation and tries to convince Alan that he should not marry.
When Judith goes on vacation in a season two episode, weekend father Alan is full-time dad. He finds it difficult to take care of Jake and forgets to get his son from soccer practice. When Alan discovers he has the Internal Revenue Service, must Charlie care of Jake and he is not better at parenting. Antics of the brothers are entertaining, but as fathers, they are each a beer belly away from that a couple of Homer Simpsons.
If the show is not comedy, Wilder, rebellious male surrogate disappears, because the stereotype is mainly for humor, but even helping others with parenting in dramas. On "Everwood," Andy should raise his two children when his wife dies in a car accident. He moves to Everwood, Colorado, because his wife had said she once had and it was' "Just Like Heaven '." Sure, that's a good reason to pack up two kids and move them across the country away from everything they ever knew just after their mother lost. Not a good first single dad move. But the eldest son Ephram gives another reason to hate his father, which makes for some good father / son shouting matches.
Ephram often the parents of his younger sister Delia and seems to know her better than his father. This is probably because when their mother was alive, neurosurgeon dad was never home. In a delivery, 8-year-old Delia chooses a movie for the family to watch "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." Ephram tells his dad that he did not let her look. Are father asks, "Am I missing something?" His son replied: "Eight years raising her. She can not watch that movie. It bothers her." In another episode, Ephram revisits Andy's poor parenting skills to his attention from the road with Ephram attitude. His father asks how it goes with his friend Amy and Ephram and Ephram says him that he has not talked to Amy lately. His father asks: Where does "this happen?" Angry teenage son replied, "A while ago. You were too busy is clueless. "
Ephram is not the only person who pitches in with parenthood. Andy af seek help from Edna, an elderly woman he hired to work for both his practice as a nurse and office manager. He also discusses the parenting problems of Edna's son Harold, also a doctor and Andy's business partner. Harold is married and has two children of his own. But Andy usually seek help from neighbor Nina, of raising a son on her own. Although Andy is one of the parents longer than Nina, since its Andy's son is younger than oldest-he always asks Nina for advice. She never asked for parenting advice. Perhaps this is because they hear all these father / son shouting matches. But what does this say about the ability of man to raise children? Why the two single parents disagree with the parenting advice? Why is it that women are expected knowing how to raise children, but not men?
Comparing the portrayal of single mothers with single fathers, but look to the WB sitcom "Reba." In the beginning of the series, Reba's dentist husband of 20 years, Brock, leaves her for his much younger and more blond dental hygienist Barbra Jean, with whom he is pregnant. Reba's 17-year-old daughter, who is recovering from alcoholism, learns she is pregnant and decides to marry the father. Second daughter Kyra moves in with Brock and Barbra Jean. Reba is her last child Jake move into adolescence.
Reba confronts issues of some parents only. She can not rely on her ex-husband and his new wife for parental support. Papa says Kyra to quit school and focus on her music career, and Barbra Jean to take the "dumb blonde" role better than Jessica Simpson. But imagine the show on a single father. Across much dysfunction, he would have at least one neighbor to refrain from parenting advice.
What about "Gilmore Girls" (which ended last year, disrupt millions of women around the world). Yes, at the end of the life span of the show, single mother, Lorelai asks for advice on raising daughter Rory, but for almost five years, she parents alone. At the end of season five, Rory convinces her friend to steal a yacht for a night of fun, and both end up in prison. Dan Rory tells her mother she dropped out of Yale. Lorelai goes to her parents for advice and then to meet several. But "Gilmore Girls" is different from "Everwood" that Lorelai is portrayed as a very capable single mother. She and her daughter are best friends. Rory makes a few mistakes, like most kids do, and Lorelai advice to obtain, as most parents do. But on "Everwood," Andy always has trouble relating to his children, and he always needs advice on how to raise them.
There certainly has been progress on TV a few fathers. For some fathers have all been on TV a step forward. Back in the day, "The Donna Reed Show" and "Leave It to Beaver "portrayed the" normal "family as consisting of a mother and a father. So, shows that are more realistic and portray some fathers are welcome. But now we are seeing more single fathers are able to nasty stereotypes that men are not good at raising children to fight and that women are born with a gene upbringing. Let's add "good with children" to our culturally specific list of what is human. I know that some people are better at parenting than some women. For example, Will Smith or Pamela Anderson? My money is on Will.
And think about this: If TV shows like "My Two Moms" or "Two and a Half Women" ever exist? Of course not. Two women raising a child is redundant, one gets the job.
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