(Europe has more single mothers than the US, but, characteristically, has less need to moralize about them one way or the other). In US pop culture, the single mother has evolved from selfish yuppie or drug-dazed slut into a woman who is more fun, slightly more heroic, and certainly less frumpy than her married counterpart.
时代发生了多么大的变化。正如单身母亲当时被无理申斥一样，今天她们又受到同样无理的追捧。（欧洲单身母亲的数量超过美国，但却不需要以这样或那样的方式在单身母亲的问题上进行说教。）而在美国的流行文化中，单身母亲已经从自私的雅皮士或沉迷于毒品的贱人逐渐演变为更加有趣、更富英雄色彩、而且肯定不像已婚女性那样不修边幅的女性形象。