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* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Film/{{Mermaids}}''. Rachel Flax is an attractive single mother of two and is able to financially support both of her daughters despite working menial jobs (perhaps justified as the film is set in 1963 and it was easier to support a family on a modest income back then.) while also having a healthy sex life. However, she is shown to be a terrible parent. She doesn't cook, feeding Charlotte and Kate nothing but finger foods while treating them more like friends than her children. Rachel's promiscuity has resulted in her and the girls moving dozens of times and Charlotte holds a deep resentment for Rachel, swearing herself to a life of celibacy and dreaming of joining a convent as a way of rebelling against her mother. This all comes back to bite Rachel when Charlotte develops a crush on local handyman Joe and Charlotte doesn't know how to handle it, all culminating with [[spoiler:Charlotte getting herself and Kate drunk, giving herself up to Joe and Kate falling into a river and almost drowning]].
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* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Film/{{Mermaids}}''.''Film/{{Mermaids|1990}}''. Rachel Flax is an attractive single mother of two and is able to financially support both of her daughters despite working menial jobs (perhaps justified as the film is set in 1963 and it was easier to support a family on a modest income back then.) while also having a healthy sex life. However, she is shown to be a terrible parent. She doesn't cook, feeding Charlotte and Kate nothing but finger foods while treating them more like friends than her children. Rachel's promiscuity has resulted in her and the girls moving dozens of times and Charlotte holds a deep resentment for Rachel, swearing herself to a life of celibacy and dreaming of joining a convent as a way of rebelling against her mother. This all comes back to bite Rachel when Charlotte develops a crush on local handyman Joe and Charlotte doesn't know how to handle it, all culminating with [[spoiler:Charlotte getting herself and Kate drunk, giving herself up to Joe and Kate falling into a river and almost drowning]].
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* Mia from ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' started out as a subversion of this. Then they had her mom somehow find a way to stay home with the kid while Mia became a model.
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* ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}'':
** Subverted with Spike's mother somewhat in ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh''; while she seems to at least juggle running a hair salon with raising Spike and also helping Spike take care of her own child rather well, they still live in an apartment complex.
** Spike herself on ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', who by that point had bought her mother's salon while still raising Emma and could afford a decent home.
** Miafrom ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' of ''The Next Generation'' started out as a subversion of this. Then they had her mom somehow find a way to stay home with the kid while Mia became a model.
** Subverted with Spike's mother somewhat in ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh''; while she seems to at least juggle running a hair salon with raising Spike and also helping Spike take care of her own child rather well, they still live in an apartment complex.
** Spike herself on ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', who by that point had bought her mother's salon while still raising Emma and could afford a decent home.
** Mia
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* Mia from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' started out as a subversion of this. Then they had her mom somehow find a way to stay home with the kid while Mia became a model.
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* Mia from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' started out as a subversion of this. Then they had her mom somehow find a way to stay home with the kid while Mia became a model.
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* Alicia Florrick on ''Series/TheGoodWife'' is a high-powered lawyer, often working incredibly long hours. She is still married, but her husband's not there (he's in prison early in the series; later they're separated) so she acts as single mother. On the other hand, her children are teenagers so they're more independent, but the only problems she ever has with them are about them mildly rebelling.
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* Alicia Florrick on ''Series/TheGoodWife'' is a high-powered lawyer, often working incredibly long hours. She is still married, but her husband's not there (he's in prison early in the series; later they're separated) so she acts as single mother.mother to their two children. On the other hand, her children are teenagers so they're more independent, but the only problems she ever has with them are about them mildly rebelling.
