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Remember how good things were for June Cleaver and Harriet Nelson? Yes, those TV moms had the good life, and troubles were easily solved without much muss or fuss. Sure, that was another century, and the mothers on today’s television shows, even the sitcoms, don’t have all the answers. Some, in fact, are quite troubled. Here’s a look at a few current TV moms who definitely can be called troubled. Troubled in their daily lives with themselves and their families. For these five ladies, Mother’s Day may be the one day of the year when things go right. Maybe …
1. Tara Gregson, ‘United States of Tara’ There is no more trouble mother on this list than Tara, and her united states are not particularly united at all. She suffers from dissociative identity disorder and has a group of altars who take over her life without warning. This makes it pretty hard for Tara to be the loving wife of Max and mom to Kate and Marshall. The fact that they all adore her and try to live with Tara and the others — Alice, T, Buck, Gimme, Shoshana — is a testament to the love that this family enjoys. But that doesn’t mean they’re not dysfunctional or that Tara’s disease has taken its toll on all of them. There’s no telling whether Mother’s Day is even something the Gregsons can imagine in a traditional way.
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