New findings challenge pop cultural portrayals of married mothers
August 25, 2025
If you watch TV or pay attention to pop culture, you’ve heard the storyline of motherhood today: Exhausted women who are unhappy and generally struggling. They’re lonely, isolated and don’t feel appreciated.
Married motherhood, in fact, is not always painted in a positive image — and according to a new study by the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, that common portrayal is not actually true.
