When it comes to disciplining children he is violent towards his son, but he would do anything for Lisa, their eldest daughter. Research shows that many children are now being raised by a single parent, and what they see on television and in the media is sometimes the only thing that tells them: one parent. According to a study conducted in Santa Clara, California, the media plays a large role in the stereotype of what the male role has turned into a “This means that a surprising number of children grow up with TV dads as the main image of what they fathers are everything” (Ivy & Jove,