Sordid reflection of life?
Yeah as for the link above. ... the pub conversation eventually led to looking it up.
So obscure though. In reality after they had comic strip appearances (I wasn't alive for that) they just kinda shrugged it off
matt z wrote:
Sordid reflection of life?
Yeah as for the link above. ... the pub conversation eventually led to looking it up.
So obscure though. In reality after they had comic strip appearances (I wasn't alive for that) they just kinda shrugged it off
I reckon its because it makes things less "complicated". You have more fun with your uncle. I have two nephews and a niece. You can have a lot more fun without the responsiblity of being a parent. Almost like a subtantially older brother in some ways.
matt z wrote:
Its never been mentioned. What's up with all the illegitimate children in cartoons?
Exactly - it's important that we promote the nuclear family as the only viable family unit, especially when educating our children how to think.
Actually I don't think that statement was made seriously at all. Just a bit of banter.
Re the original post, according to the one of the links on this thread, the boys originally went to visit their uncle and seem to have got stuck there. Must be something to do with the success of the plot situation I think. There may be lots of other illegitimate children in cartoons, but I don't I can't think of any off the top, although I don't tend to read them either.
I think in a lot of stories, a character is missing one or both parents because this builds sympathy for the character. If you just look at the Disney characters, as an example, it is a common theme: Cinderella being raised by a mean and selfish step mother, Snow White - same thing. Beauty and the Beast (just the father was alive but he was much older and so he was less protection than a young strong father would have been). Aladdin, Lion King, and Little Mermaid are other examples and this is just Disney. If you look at many fictional stories you will find this same thing: missing of one or both parents or living with parents that are not nice to live with.
But, according to the link, the little ducks had a father and a mother; they were just visiting Donald. During the Great Depression and during the wars, children were sometimes sent to live with relatives even though both parents were still alive; it's just how it was. So maybe the parents of the little ducks fell upon hard times or other illness. Who knows?
From the link:
"Huey, Dewey, and Louie are the sons of Donald's sister Della Duck; in Donald's Nephews, their mother is instead named Dumbella. In the original theatrical shorts, they were originally sent to visit Donald for only one day; in the comics, the three were sent to stay with Donald on a temporary basis, until their father came back from the hospital (the boys ended up sending him there after a practical joke of putting firecrackers under his chair). According to the Duck Family Tree, their full names are Huebert, Deuteronomy and Louis. In both the comics and animated shorts, the boys' parents were never heard from or referred to again after these instances, with the boys ending up permanently living with Donald. All four of them live in the fictional city of Duckburg, in the fictional state of Calisota."
matt z wrote:
Its never been mentioned. What's up with all the illegitimate children in cartoons?
Exactly - it's important that we promote the nuclear family as the only viable family unit, especially when educating our children how to think.
Well its a psychologically viable unit.
Both sexes are certainly SUPPOSED to be more helpful when raising a balanced child.
Not mom or dad berating and reducing the other sex to SCUM or a BITCH so the kid develops a bent perspective.
Also since women's resentment. Some single men and absenteeism