Real Life, Not High Life, for ‘Murphy’
Re Rick Du Brow’s column on “Murphy Brown” (“The Birth of a Risky ‘Murphy,’ ” May 9): Can’t the producers have the show reflect real life? Brown loses her job and health insurance and is now forced to go to a charitable hospital, where she spends all day, along with other welfare mothers waiting for care.
She finally is delivered by an intern (no older or brighter than Doogie Howser) and is put in a 10-bed ward with indigent, mostly unwed and semi-literate mothers.
Her baby shower, rather than being attended by pretty, affluent women, consists of other unemployed mothers discussing how to get food stamps and rent subsidies.
And the father of the baby was only interested in a one-night stand and shows no interest in seeing or supporting the child.
We have enough problems with teen-age unwed mothers. Murphy Brown only adds glamour and helps legitimize the bearing of illegitimate children.
ROBERT S. ELLYN
Calabasas
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