The motherly scientist is usually the first to ask that the test subjects be given humane treatment.

The Motherhood Is Superior trope as used in popular culture. A Double Standard which states that mothers love their children more than their fathers do.

The Team Mom basically acts as the mother figure for everyone else in the group, regardless of age or family relations. Although the role itself is ...

One good way to show how sweet and caring a mother is is to depict her with her hair tied in a loose braid or ponytail and put on her shoulder.

Stand-In Parents: There is a father/child or mother/child event coming up and the kid enters but someone else pretends to be the parent.

Mum Looks Like a Sister: The parent looks younger, or the child looks older. Closely related to Older Than They Look and Younger Than They Look. Especially true ...

Like many other mammals depicted throughout history as predators, bears are actually passive animals, and won't attack humans unless provoked. Papa Wolf · Pre-Asskicking One-Liner · MamaBear / Fan Works · Playing With

This trope is for women who are well-intentioned but simply clueless as parents; for mothers who are actively malevolent towards their offspring, see ...

A Parental Substitute is an adult friend who fills the children's lonely life with guidance and (often) love.

This chapter interrogates how monstrously maternal bodies are constructed as hybridity, fragmented identity, and queer desire.