Does the Brady Bunch model exist?
I hate the Brady Bunch, because that model of a stepfamily is what has just made it so impossible. People feel like such failures when it doesn’t work so harmoniously. They made it look like everything was easy. The parents were always so patient, and the kids were always eventually so understanding. That is just not real life. And it’s hurt people, you know. Just like all the fairy tales in Disney about the wicked stepmother, has made the stepmother position the hardest position in the stepfamily. Stepfathers, actually, have a slightly easier time than stepmothers. Stepmothers are often seen as mean and wicked and evil. And very often they’re not wicked, evil people. So, no, there is no Brady Bunch family. I’m sure somewhere, some family made that happen, but I doubt it. I mean, it’s just not real.
