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** Alternatively, Sharon wants to give her mother Shannon grandkids.
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*** Alternatively, Shannon asks Sharon if she and Bob will have kids. She says they don't want to.

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*** Alternatively, Shannon asks Sharon if she and Bob will have kids. She says they don't want to.to, and Shannon is okay with it.
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*** Alternatively, Shannon asks Sharon if she and Bob will have kids. She says they don't want to.
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* '''Straight''': Sharon's mother Shannon wants her to get married and have kids as quickly as possible.

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* '''Straight''': Sharon's mother Shannon (and her father Seamus too) wants her to get married and have kids as quickly as possible.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Sharon becomes so desperate to please her mother that she ends up in a bad relationship with DomesticAbuser Edward.

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Sharon becomes so desperate to please her mother that she ends up in a bad relationship with DomesticAbuser Edward.



* '''Reconstructed''': Sharon breaks up with Edward and starts dating Bob instead. Shannon is relieved that Bob is not abusive, though she still resents the fact that Sharon and Bob have no plans to start a family.

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Sharon breaks up with Edward and starts dating Bob instead. Shannon is relieved that Bob is not abusive, though she still resents the fact that Sharon and Bob have no plans to start a family.
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** Sharon's aunt Samantha is the one bugging her to get kids.
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** Seamus is Sharon's OverprotectiveDad who is terrified at the thought of his daughter having sex and getting pregnant.

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** Seamus is Sharon's OverprotectiveDad BoyfriendBlockingDad who is terrified at the thought of his daughter having sex and getting pregnant.
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** Shannon is understandably horrified at the accusation, and realizing that she's been treating her daughter as little more than a baby machine for her own benefit. She tearfully apologizes, and while she still does want grandkids, she tries her best to take Sharon's feelings into consideration.

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** Shannon is understandably horrified at the accusation, and [[HeelRealization realizing that she's been treating her daughter as little more than a baby machine machine]] for her own benefit. She tearfully apologizes, and while she still does want grandkids, she tries her best to take Sharon's feelings into consideration.
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** Sharon becomes bitterly resentful of her mother's fixation on having grandchildren, eventually accusing her mom of only seeing a potential grandchild as "being able to have a kid again" while shifting all of the responsibilities onto ''her'' instead. She then scathingly asks if her mother even really cared about her own feelings on the matter at all, or if [[ItsAllAboutMe she just existed only to give what her mother wanted.]]


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** Shannon is understandably horrified at the accusation, and realizing that she's been treating her daughter as little more than a baby machine for her own benefit. She tearfully apologizes, and while she still does want grandkids, she tries her best to take Sharon's feelings into consideration.
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** Sharon is [[QueerAsTropes lesbian, asexual, and/or transgender]], and [=can't/doesn't=] want to physically procreate. Shannon is either not aware of this, making Sharon feel pressured over living up to her mother's expectations but not wanting to abandon her identity; or is aware of it and hates it, trying to force her daughter to "overcome" her identity and settle down with a man to have babies with him as a woman.

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** Sharon is [[QueerAsTropes lesbian, asexual, and/or transgender]], and [=can't/doesn't=] want to physically procreate. Shannon is either not aware of this, making Sharon feel pressured over living up to her mother's expectations but not wanting to abandon her identity; or is aware of it and hates it, trying to [[CureYourGays force her daughter to "overcome" her identity and settle down with a man to have babies with him as a woman.woman]].
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** Shannon occasionally mentions that when she was Sharon's age, she had already had a child. Shannon doesn't mean anything by it, but Sharon believes she's being passive-aggressive and that she wants her to have children.
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** Shannon always dreamed of wanting grandchildren when she gave birth to Sharon.
** Shannon thinks that being a parent is what makes Sharon a more responsible person.

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