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Raising Hope

Bringing Up Baby: Why Raising Hope Gives Me Hope (and Modern Family Doesn't)

TV post by Katherine Don, Submitted by Katherine Don on October 20, 2011 - 10:37am; tagged Dexter, feminism on television, Glee, Modern Family, Raising Hope.
three of the adults on Raising Hope--two white men and a white woman--sit on a couch with a baby

Babies on TV serve as props for their parent’s character development. On reality TV, babies are dreams come true and cute fashion accessories (for celebrity moms) or evidence of bad behavior (teen moms). On Dexter, toddler Harrison exists solely as a plot device to anchor daddy Dexter to the non-sociopathic world, and on Up All Night, baby Amy helps her hard-partying parents embrace adulthood. So, who exactly is doing the parenting here? Will the real parents please stand up?

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