[UA] Darkening Children's Tales

[Nick Wedig]

> 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.

Going off on a tangent to this thread which isn't really related to the other bits of the thread:  Did you ever notice that the disney characters tend to have nephews (Donald has Huey, Dewey and Louie though he has no siblings to father them, Mickey has several nephews whose names I forget, only Goofy actually gets a son, and no mother for the child) instead of sons?  I have a theory on this.  In Renaissance times, when a clergyman didn't live up to his vow of chastity and fathered a son, often the child woul be given to the church under the patronage of that priest, who would raise the kid into the clergy, all the while claiming the kid was his "nephew".  I'm thinking the same deal applies here with Mickey fathering some illegitimate children and passing them off as nephews.

Mr. Teapot
god's nephew

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