What is the reason for the prevalence of the “evil stepmother” trope?
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The Grimm brothers. When they (re)wrote many of the classic fairy tales, they changed mothers and mothers-in-law into step-mothers because they felt it was an insult to birth mothers.
Also, given the dangers of child birth back then, the prevalence of step-mothers was a much more common thing back then, so it looks more out of place now.
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