The Palgrave Handbook of Parenthood in Popular Culture is a collectionPodnieks, Elizabeth of essaysWahlström Henriksson, Helena, exploring popular culture representations of parenthood, particularly as imbricated with meanings of motherhood and fatherhood. It interrogates ideologies that have constructed, driven, and continue to reinforce traditional parental roles, identities, and experiences, and opens up new, crucial, and often taboo-breaking conversations about reproductionReproduction, reproduce, reproductive, caregiving, and kinship structures in twenty-first-century contexts across the globe.