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- NAME: Joanna Kerns
- OCCUPATION: Television Actress
- BIRTH DATE: February 12, 1953 (Age: 60)
- PLACE OF BIRTH: San Francisco, California
- ZODIAC SIGN: Aquarius
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On the hit sitcom, Growing Pains, actress Joanna Kerns played Maggie Seaver, one of the most popular television mothers of the late 1980s.
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TV Moms: 1980s
View groupIn the 1980s, TV moms began juggling family life with professional careers. Phylicia Rashad played lawyer and mom to a big family on The Cosby Show, and Candace Bergen portrayed a TV news anchor who has an unplanned pregnancy out of wedlock. Judith Light played a busy, single advertising executive on Who's the Boss, and even hired a male housekeeper—who happened to be a single dad. Joanna Kerns played the much-loved mom on Growing Pains, whose husband worked from home so she could go back to working as a reporter. This bending of gender roles reflected more modern family structures, and the new choices that women faced.
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