They resolved everything and hugged each other within 30 minutes. The parents were all very aware of what was going on in their children s lives and they knew their friends even the smooth talking, two-faced Eddie Haskell. Children were disciplined when they got out of line. Mom, of course, was a stay at home mom who baked lots of cookies. These shows were all about families who loved each other and worked together to solve their problems.
TV shows today reflect a whole different type of family.
You can hardly find on TV a family with a husband and wife and two or three kids or if you do it is certainly not what you would call ideal like the Bundy s on Married with Children or Homer and Marge Simpson. Judging Amy is about a divorced single mom living with her mother. Even the ones who have spouses, you never see them. We live in a time when the family unit has basically disintegrated, and it is certainly reflected in the media. Over half the US adult population is single.