Smiles and tears of single parenting | Curio

Smiles and tears of single parenting

6 mins | Dec 30, 2021

It's a problem no one wants. Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid" was initially marketed as a comedy with the occasional tear. Now, 100 years later, Peter Tonguette revisits the unconventional family of Chaplin's heart-tugging vision and instead finds a tragic social commentary about how we treat society's most vulnerable citizens: children.

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