After he gets divorced, a father finds renewed purpose through his role as a single parent and the precious time he spends with his children.

After having an affair with a married man, a woman divorces her old husband and remarries, but she struggles to keep up with the compounded responsibilities of mother- and step-motherhood.

In an attempt to impress his emotionally distant father, a boy ridicules his mother, who has loved him unconditionally even in his father's absence. Wracked with guilt, he yearns for her forgiveness - only to find that she does not hold it against him.

After a boy moves into a house full of women, the youngest daughter's life begins to change.

After a man's wife dies in childbirth, he hires a nanny to take care of his children. The children develop a loving relationship with the nanny, while the father brings in numerous stepmothers.

A New York family embarks on an island vacation which quickly turns disastrous. In an effort to prove she belongs in the family, the stepmother saves the children from certain death on multiple occasions, but she is unable to spare them from all injuries.

A series of vignettes about various sons along a family tree.

When a man's son visits with his new girlfriend, the father worries that she is only interested in the grand house and family money. The father knows he should not intervene in his son's relationship, but the more time he spends with them, the more he dislikes her and the more difficult it gets to stay quiet.

A married couple has decided to separate, but first they must go through the difficult task of telling their four children.

An English family is on the run because the father has become paranoid about the monsters that he sees everywhere, and the mother wonders how long they can continue like this.