Please can you mums help me!!!!!

[Lauralou]

Hi 'mums'!! Im a student at university and I am studying the way the family is portrayed in British soap operas such as Eastenders and Cornation Street...so if you are a fan I would love your input? Im desperate to know how you guys feel about the portrayals of family life. I would love it if you could possibly just give me some brief answers to any of my questions or just let me know how you feel on the subject!

How far do you think the portrayal of different knids of family life within soaps reflects real life circumstances?
Do you think soaps and the families within them provide a role model for society?
Can you identify with any of the characters on either Eastenders or Corrie?
Do you think 'the family' in general is in a state of crisis within Britain at the moment? If so why?
What are your views as to the 'ideal' type of family form? Do you think it is best for parents to be married when they have children? Do you feel children benefit with two parents or do they do just as well in life in a single-parent family? etc
Thanks so much for taking the time to read this and I would be soooooo grateful for any replies! Take care! Bye!

Lauralou, I don't watch Eastenders, so I don't know what that's like, but I'm always curious about what the working mums on Corrie do with their kids after school and during holidays. You never see Sally saying she can't open the shop this week because it's half term!
On a general note, I do think there are problems at the moment in the family, and believe it is largely to do with the 'me, me, me' culture fostered in the early eighties. Some people seem no longer to feel any responsibility for their kids, but believe it is more important to get what they want, rather than what is good for the kids. This may seem harsh, but I've recently seen 2 friends marriages split up for no greater reason than boredom. In both cases, the parents (fathers) put their needs before those of their children (oldest was 6). I feel it is about time people decided before they had kids, whether they would be willing to make things work, and it does take a lot of effort sometimes, and if they are not prepared for that, then perhaps they should reconsider. I do want to say, that I am not condemming divorce in itself, as there are times when it s in the interests of all concerned, but there are repurcussions all round, and I don't think these are given equal weight in the decision to split.
BTW I don't necessarily believe the 'traditional' mom, dad & kids is the ideal model, I just firmly believe that the stability is important, one of the more stable famillies I know has 2 moms & no 'dad'.

Honestly, a child learns more in a mother and father household since they learn how the father respects the mother and the mother respects the father the son will want to learn from the dad and the daughter would want that kind of respect for herself,

that's alot of questions OP... lol