Abstract
Abstract Nearly a decade ago, in 1992, then-Vice President Dan Quayle ignited a public debate about the family simply by attacking a fictional character on a television show. Murphy Brown’s decision to become a single mother, he charged, “mock[ed] the importance of fathers,” and presented single parenthood as “just another lifestyle choice.” Forty-one million Americans watched Murphy’s rhetorical revenge. In the September 21, 1992, broadcast of Murphy Brown, she chastised Quayle’s “painfully unfair” comments, reminding him, and America, that “families come in all shapes and sizes.”
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