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13 episodes in this season

Hybrid

60 min

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Refrigerator Mothers

60 min

Fenceline: A Company Town Divided

60 min

Sweet Old Song

60 min

Mai's America

60 min

Senorita Extraviada

60 min

Escuela

60 min

Afghanistan 1380

60 min

Boomtown

60 min

E11

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin

60 min

E12

Two Towns of Jasper

60 min

E13

Flag Wars

E14

Larry v. Lockney

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19881h6.9

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Refrigerator Mothers

Season 15 · Episode 2 · Jul 16, 2002

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."

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19881h6.9

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Refrigerator Mothers

Season 15 · Episode 2 · Jul 16, 2002

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