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English - Cartoon

The cartoon was published in www.CartoonStock.com. There is no information given about the artist and the date when the cartoon was published. The cartoon presents a typical problem of single parents.

On the focus are a woman and her son. The woman wears a big man suit, a tie and a beard. She has a woman short hair cut. In the left hand she holds a cigar on a level with her chest. The right hand hangs down. Her expression looks friendly. In front of her stands her son. His hands are in his pockets. His posture shows that he is relaxed.
The clothes of him look like normal teenager clothes. He wears a pant, a pullover, sneakers with open shoelace and short man hair cut. His expression looks nerved.
In the right corner is the signature of the artist. In the background is a commode. On the commode are a plant and a picture frame.
The caption is placed under the cartoon. There is written “I know it’s been hard to be both a father and mother to me, but now that I’m grown, Mom, how about being just a mother again.” The son says that to his mother.

The character of the mother was caricatured as a mother who dressed up like father. It is typical for men that he smokes and so she does the same. She plays two rolls, to give her son the same life like other children with both parents. Although the son was grown and does not need this role play. The cartoonist makes fun of the single parents and dressed up the woman like a business man. The key point the cartoon is trying to make is to expose the fact that single parents have a hard job to raise a child. They can not divide the tasks, they take the decisions at themselves and in short they managed the whole raise of a child. The son want stop the role play from his mother. Also for a child it is difficult to handle his life with one contact person. The caption expresses that the son does not need that his mother plays two roles. He was grown, he understand his situation and the stressful life of his mother to be a single mother.

The cartoon achieves its aim of show on a funny way how difficult it is to deal with the upbringing a child. I must compare it with the statement “Playing the good cop or playing the bad cop”. It is like the same to be a mother and father at the same time. It is exhausting and hard. The cartoon appeals to me that we should aid (unterstützen) single parents in their situation. In my opinion the cartoon is well-made. At the first view you can detect (erkennen) the problem which the artist wants to show.