[UA] Darkening Children's Tales

[Nick Wedig]

>Actually most modern children's stories go the other way.  Each of the
>national book councils has recently complained that for some reason
>publishing houses are churning out teen angst filled with manipulative,
>ineffective pschyoterapists.  Thank God for Harry Potter...  Can you be a
>character in a modern children's novel and have well-adjusted, present
>parents who you like?  No, you can't.  If you go through the children's
>bestsellers for the last three years, everyone's parents are mad, dead,
>divorcing or piously conservative.  

Try naming a Disney movie where the main character has both parents.  Most are orphans or missing a parent (typically the mother), often for unexplained reasons.  

Mr. Teapot
ragged little orphan

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