Parent Trap Thesis

The Parent Trap is a romantic family comedy that brings light and optimism to children in families in “broken homes”. The filmmakers are helpful in achieving this and showing the differences in genre and social history by showing differences in parenting styles.

In the 1961 film we see a more strict style of parenting than we do in the 1998 film. There are many factors that could contribute to this including the rarity of divorce in the early 1960s as compared to the more increased divorce rates in the late 90s.