The New Adventures of Old Christine's main character is divorced mother Christine Campbell.
   While the ideal of maternal self-sacrifice and the good mother forms an important part of many works of art relating to the Holocaust, other womens Holocaust and post-Holocaust art has engaged more deeply with mothers trauma, taboos, and the experiences of second and third-generation Holocaust survivors
 This is commonly either an adoptive mother or a stepmother (the biologically unrelated partner of a child's father)

