At this point, most Disney fans know that if they are sitting down to watch a Disney movie on a Friday night with a glass of red wine and their cats sleeping next to them (ugh, that sounds so amazing we wish we were doing that right now), they know that they'll either be watching characters who lose their parents, or who just simply don't have any. It's a Disney thing.

But when you think about, it's mostly the mother characters that are missing in Disney films. The child characters either lose them before the movie even begins, or they just aren't mentioned at all, or the mother characters aren't given much screen time. The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin…where are the mothers? What happened? And why is this a recurring theme?

Well, now we might have an answer.