STepmothes has always been coast. A long time before the brothers Grimm gave us the Queen of Snow White who raped her (and a long time before Jaldot’s turn in this role in this role), there was praise, charming of the classic myth. It is better to remember MEDEA to kill her children, but, according to OVID, she continued to get a champion, the hero Theosos, and tried to kill him as well. (Poison, of course, and with his eye on his inheritance: the charming father of the father 101.)
After thousands of years after OVID, modern women still let our lives limited to such stories. A new survey says that 43 % of single mothers It is deterred from the dating of other parents through “the negative stereotypes of the mothers of the brother’s wife, who is photographed in popular culture”; 37 % expressly states fear that the children of their partners will see them as “an evil wife”. One should approach such a poll with caution – assigned by a dating application for parents – but these results are reflected in academic studies all over the world. A survey from 2018 from New Zealand found that the father’s wives changed their behavior, afraid to set the border with their children, for fear of the “evil father’s wife” mark.
Not even the royal family is safe from this psychological shade. When Prince Harry published his memoirs additionalHe did not say completely, as Tabls claimed, that his father’s wife, Camilla, proved an evil wife. What he said, talking about their first meeting, was: “I remember wondering, immediately before tea, if she would mean to me. If she is like all the evil father of the stories. But she was not.” Many children share Harry’s prejudices, especially if they grow up to Disney. A study from Anglia Ruskin, which was published last week, evaluated 450 hours of television and classic cinema to find that the wife of a brother’s wife is often photographed as “authoritarian”, “strict”, “neglect”, “without heart” and “tampering”.
Mixed families are not new. For a lot of date, given high deaths of mothers at birth, parents married for the second time in the hope of finding a Sarg woman with the care of the current children. However, even the most self -self -esteem wives are easy to hate. We forget the practical considerations, such as the threat posed by the stepmother of your inheritance. She sleeps with your father. strange. No wonder the stepmother is sorcerer. The wife of Snow White changes the classic division. Only a dose of love can cast a talisman on your father’s pesticide. You can see Hag under it.
The good news of the father’s wife is that we are ready to hate our mothers as much. When Grimms blogged Snow White, they presented a wife to an oral tradition, which is usually characterized by a brutal biological mother. In his thesis in 1976 on fictional stories, Uses of magicPsychologist Bruneo Pitilheim argued that Grims’s publications were launched because her heavy father’s amendments allowed children to “divide” physically in confusing our biological mothers. Our innate love of the mother is expressed in the ideal and dead woman represented by the late Snow White mother; Our struggle with the real woman who tells us to arrange our rooms by the “stepmother”.
A dead woman, ok. Live, bad. So if you are a mother looking for history, do not let the fear that she will be an evil wife who hinders you. Teenagers for your partner cannot definitely hate you than your will.
Kate Malbaby writes about theater, politics and culture
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