Some of the most popular television at the moment has a weird lack of children.
"Virgin River," for example, despite being set in a busy, populated town, has only one young child: Christopher, and the poor thing keeps getting kidnapped, a hazard of life on the Netflix show. It's a beautiful, riverfront place, but the price to live there is a steady stream of trauma, being pregnant for longer than an elephant and not having any other kids around to play with once yours finally show up. Other shows like Netflix's "Sweet Magnolias" give teenagers the same intense, drawn-out storylines as the adult characters, though they are not nearly as compelling.
