I should be doing my taxes, so instead I’m reading the web. This article I found via Fark caught my eye. It’s about children’s movies. One of the things that my daughter used to do when she was little was play make believe with her dolls. We would over hear her describing the scenario for a particular session with these words, “pretend that this is [some girl’s name] and her mother is dead. I remember questioning her once about why the mom had to be dead and not really getting an answer. I attributed it to the seemingly never ending stream of movies aimed at children where the mother, father or parents are dead or missing for one reason or another. I am acutely aware of these themes now. Movies like Billboard Dad where the children scheme to find a new mom or wife for their single dad.