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Originally Posted by scineram

It beautifully portrais people as child factories, so that women should function as such, and only ever serve the family.

I'll agree the show is far from perfect (and let's not get started on the manga). It idolizes parenthood but anime quite often idolizes particular stages in life (high school anyone) but at least it shows some non conventional families in a positive light.

Clannad AS is an example of an anime that really takes the idealization element to eleven.

Spoiler for plot spoiler, sort of:

Essentially: teenage boy from a single parent family under-performs at school and joins the labor market with only a high school diploma. He has suffered permanent injuries from child abuse which have destroyed his chances for a scholarship. He ends up in a dead end job and lives in a low rent apartment. He is stigmatized as the son of an ex-con which prevents him from making promotion. To top it off he get's married, and has a child with, mentally challenged, emotionally dependent, chronically ill, teenage girlfriend.

Oh, and this is a happy ending