POV - Season 15 Episode 2
It is America of the 1950s and 1960s, when a woman's most important contribution to society is generally considered to be her ability to raise happy, well-adjusted children. But for the mother whose child is diagnosed with autism, her life's purpose will soon become a twisted nightmare. Looking for help and support, she encounters instead a medical establishment that pins the blame for her child's bizarre behaviors on her supposedly frigid and detached mothering. Along with a heartbreaking label for her child, she receives a devastating label of her own. She is a "refrigerator mother". Refrigerator Mothers paints an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of professionally promoted "mother blame."
First Air Date : 1988-07-05
Last Air date : 2024-12-30
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 15 : Episode 12002-07-09
- Season 15 : Episode 22002-07-16
- Season 15 : Episode 32002-07-23
- Season 15 : Episode 42002-07-30
- Season 15 : Episode 52002-08-06
- Season 15 : Episode 62002-08-20
- Season 15 : Episode 72002-08-27
- Season 15 : Episode 82002-09-10
- Season 15 : Episode 92002-07-02
- Season 15 : Episode 112003-01-20
- Season 15 : Episode 122023-01-22
- Season 15 : Episode 132003-06-17
- Season 15 : Episode 142003-07-01
