I'll Become a Mother (私お母さんになる)

Determined to let their son grow up naturally, Su Xing and Xi Bin avoid the intense academic pressure embraced by other parents. But when their neighborhood school changes just before enrollment, anxiety sets in. Faced with tough choices about early education, elite schools, and costly extracurriculars, the couple’s parenting ideals are put to the test.

Yamazaki Risako lives with her husband Yoichiro and 3-year-old daughter Fumika. One day, she receives a notification from the court that she has been selected as an alternate member of the jury for a shocking criminal case. The defendant in the case is Ando Mizuho, a full-time housewife who is the same age as Risako. She is on trial for causing the death of her 8-month-old daughter by dropping her into the bathtub. As a mother herself, Risako feels repulsed that Mizuho killed her own child. However, after the trial opens, Mizuho’s circumstances remind Risako of her own past and she soon becomes confused with the chaotic feelings that have lain dormant in her. (Source: jdramas.wordpress.com)

Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.

The intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Explore the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.

A single mother believes that she can give her son a happy life just on her own. However, at the critical juncture of getting her son into a primary school, she realises that all the mums in the kindergarten have their own troubles.

An honest and meaty drama about the reality of being a mother.

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Dongbaek is a single mother. When a potential new love enters her life, she finds ways to defy the social stigmas surrounding her.

A woman's daring sexual past collides with her married-with-kids present when the bad-boy ex she can't stop fantasizing about crashes back into her life.

Yu Kyung is a successful woman who is proficient enough to become an executive director of Chunha Group when she started as a secretary. She recently found out her daughter is alive, so she plans to get her back and take her revenge. Meanwhile, Hye Soo is a strong girl who faces challenges head-on. She has a daughter with Ji Ho, and she would do anything for her. However, she gets tragically betrayed by Ji Ho, the love of her life, over power and money. How will those two mothers end their fierce revenge?

The tale of three mothers of first graders whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.

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Set in their Dublin hometown, Anna, Rachel, Maggie, Claire and Helen navigate the peaks and troughs of their late 20s and 30s. This is a sisterhood full of in-jokes, hand-me-down resentments and more than a few old wounds. But their DNA, history and shared love of power ballads keep the Walsh sisters together in the face of heartbreak, grief, addiction and parenthood.

Rosemary, Jane and Emily try to juggle motherhood, work, friendships and love lives in an overly complicated modern world.

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