Monday, November 10, 2008

Where Are All the Parents?

  • Little Mermaid: No mother
  • Beauty and the Beast: No mother
  • Dumbo: No father
  • Heidi: No parents
  • Lion King: Father dies
  • Bambi: Mother dies
  • Cinderella: Mother dead, father dies
  • Snow White: Mother dead, father dies
  • The Little Princess: Mother dead, father dies
  • Pollyanna: Mother dead, father dies
It seems that we have very few intact family role models. Is anyone else noticing a pattern here?

5 comments:

Katrina Custer said...

That's one reason I LOVED The Incredibles. First intact family in a while.

Jen D said...

I've never really thought of this before, but after reading your entry I could only come up with 6 Disney movies that have both parents...so I decided to to see if Wikipedia had anything to say about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_mothers#cite_note-3
Definitely interesting--check it out.

ella peterson said...

huh. i wonder if that is why we never watched any...

Ali said...

wow that's crazy!

Lynn Wolf said...

Well not everyone has the perfect family of mother, father and sibling. Take it from me. I always empathized with several of those characters, and they helped me deal with the life I was given on many occasions.