Do you feel like YOUR kind of family is represented in media ?
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Being in an interreligion and intercultural family I don't see us represented well but being a Black American I've noticed more cartoons representing ex. Lyla in the loop. And also representing for living in a apartment, instead of living in a house with a picket fence and a dog.
No to kind of 🤷♀️ husbands mentally disabled, disabled elder, kids, and me physically disabled but doing my damnedest to hold everything together with no other family, friend, or financial support. So yeah there’s media of disabled or elder caregiver, single parent, struggling parent, etc but no outright representation as media usually has something going whether family, friends, or finances. By financial I mean being able to pay for elder/disabled care, child care, maid, eating out, and so on.
Yes and no. We're white and a family of 4 so that's well represented but I'd love to see more positive representation for plus sized men in father roles or to see more adult autistic parents, like me.
@FairyMother 🦖🌸 I would like to build on this and say not the overzealous plus size or neurodivergent types. More normalized as I think most people are where they’re trying to be better but still have traits but aren’t over the top. Like plus size parents trying to be active/eat healthy in moderation and teaching healthy habits while going through daily obstacles. Neurodivergent parents struggling but also succeeding in daily situations without it being a either-or situation of nonfunctional or a genius.
Rarely. I think there is a lack of black nuclear families in media recently. And I don’t ever think I’ve seen a show with black twins
@Gennifer I usually hear the term blended families to describe your situation, since mixed to most people implies mixed racial based things
@Daija check out Sister Sister for your black twin fix!
Our living arrangements aren’t in my opinion. Our baby was unexpected and we wanted to save up for a mortgage deposit because we’re desperate to own our own home and we know that’s almost impossible if you rent somewhere so we live with my mom. I never see families who live with their moms/grandparents in the media
growing up i didn’t see a lot of my personal situation represented in the media & i think it would have helped. i was adopted as a baby from asia and raised by a single white mama! i have seen very little about adoption (def more so now tho) & then i’ve always seen single mom representation but not so much the two together or the mixed race aspect.
I honestly don't know how it could be like my way of life is because of very strange parents other mixed humans are mixed of people that aren't as strange lol my mother is a Nigerian native American mix who grew up in Iran her parents helped handicap kids there and my father was a Jewish slash Latin America native and he was very intellectual and intelligent but not able to do most manual things oh and he was insane and he needed to be kept away from weapons or sharp objects.... lol 😆 if I'm weird our my kids are I blame them completely those weirdos were strange ...you're not going to get a show were the parents are yelling at the children in Persian and Spanish and the dad is wandering off because voices are telling him we're being invaded by the Chinese lol 😆 😂 🤣 you'll get interracial couples now and then but they can only take it so far lol
We have a white British lady convert (with a Jewish name) for mum, an Egyptian immigrant Muslim man for dad, 3 white passing little ladies including twins. Not represented hardly at all. That said, I am also sure there are other family dynamics and setups that probably need more representation that us.
@Raqi that’s why I said recently. 90s- early 2000s had a bunch of black sitcoms. Plus it wasn’t a nuclear family lol
@Daija Lyla in the loop on PBS has black twins and a nuclear Black family
@Daija I interpreted your comment as two separate points, not seeing black nuclear families recently as one thing and not seeing black twins as another (since you said you don't ever think you've seen thet)
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I don't really care about representation in media. I mean, I'm native American and Polish, tattooed artist type. But I don't care if I don't see indigenous people in media. I personally get annoyed when they take preexisting characters and gender/race swap them in reboots. Not everyone has to be gay either. But I never give any of it much fault.
No not at all. Im Palestinian and my husband is west African. We are a Muslim family. We have a son together and expecting another baby soon. My husband has a daughter from his first marriage that’s also Muslim. She’s half west African and half Puerto Rican. Never seen our family represented in the media lol
@Tiffany ohh I haven’t heard. I’ll check it out thanks!
That I have personally seen myself, no.
Maybe it’s because I haven’t been watching a lot of things lately but no I don’t really see mixed families especially South Asian man/White woman combos.
@Raqi I edited to add the twin part. My bad!
no & yes! Kind of! We are an interracial family, my Husband is White American and I’m Black African so we do see a lot of interracial families online these days. Bt the reason why we decided to start our own YouTube channel & just share our story on social media even tho we are very private ppl & is because we didn’t see any1 talk abt cultural, or religious differences! we see the focus is jus on racial differences. Bt with my Husband & I race is not our biggest differences even tho it looks like that cuz we are different skin colors. So not only is our skin color way different bt we are also an interfaith couple & intercultural. I don’t see a lot of Muslim women with non Muslim men. No one knows the hell we went thru to even get married lol cuz of our religious differences! I jus wish I had the energy to keep making YouTube videos to keep telling our story cuz I know there are so many other ppl like us out there even tho it’s not common
No not many healthy examples of a stepmom/stepchild relationship I’ve seen
@Haley 💚 I definitely agree. I don’t even have any healthy examples in my own personal life, every blended family I know has issues with the “blending” & not a lot healthy co parenting. All my friends who have step children complain abt their step kids, I even had a really good friend say that she wished her step son didn’t exist & that she wishes it was jus her kids with her Husband lol and I was a little taken back at her words cuz she is essentially a mother figure to her step son bt she doesn’t even like him, so that’s problematic
@Jasmin yes it’s so complicated for most families. I realize that I’m blessed to be in the position I’m in and actually enjoy being a step mom. I can’t say it’s always easy or that it wouldn’t be easier if we didn’t have to co parent but it works. Besides Full House I don’t know any examples of a healthy blended family lol. They excluded the other bio parents though so idk they may have been crazy lol.
@courtney For me I'd just love to see them write more fat dads who aren't lazy or food obsessed or alcoholic or just flat out bad fathers. I don't care if they'd write a health journey to go with it just as long as it's not mocking him lol
@Raqi mixed, blended, and step family are all used interchangeably
I do see some stuff on mixed families. I don’t feel like it’s totally nonexistent. I just don’t see it a lot. Especially for more complicated situations. I have a daughter from a previous marriage and my husband has a daughter from a previous relationship. We’re about to have a son together. I have residential custody of my daughter and his ex has residential custody of his daughter. So we have an odd combination of having my daughter most of the time and his daughter much less. Soon we’ll have a baby full time. It’s hard to navigate at times and makes things complicated a lot. We both have exes who are hard to deal with as well. I do feel like I’m fine without the representation, but I’m sure many mixed families would benefit from seeing that others go through this too, it’s hard at times, and the emotions that come with it are normal.