I have often wondered why none of the Princesses (besides Aurora, 花木兰 & Tiana) have a Mother that's still alive. Why do 你 think that is?

When 你 think about all the princesses that dont have a mom yeah 你 feel sorry for them but when 你 think about it isnt that what makes them strong as a person.
For some reason girls without moms usually are 更多 independent and all the ones 你 listed without moms are very independent. Yeah i guess we feel sorry for them but the whole growing up with dad thing makes them a completly different person apart from what they would be like if they had a mom.
Girls who have moms get to be sheltered longer then the ones who only have dads. So the reason these girls always become 更多 curious and such at a young age is they never had a motherly "Shelter"
I dont know how they do it my moms my best friend. But it cetainly gives them a different outlook.

I noticed a formula with the DP Movies:
First 2 have 迷失 both thier parents and are raised 由 evil women=sweet,docile Princess who dream of 爱情 and escape...then they changed it a little with Aurora(raised 由 3 sweet women and not parents but get her Parents in the end)and still=sweet,Docile Ptincess who dreams of 爱情 but not escape...keep in mind these 电影院 were made in 1937-1959...
Then in 1989 there was Ariel and the formula changed...the 下一个 4 were raised 由 fathers only and mom was out of the Picture...all 3 were left to do whatever they wanted 由 thier fathers and all three were very independent,outspoken, and made very rash decisions that put them in danger(Belle was the only one that seemed close to her father) After Ariel the other 3 had problems with Men being forced on them and they rebelled because of it....Pocahontas did change things to with the giving the man up in the end....These all took place between 1989-1995..
1998 the formula once again changed with Mulan...the 下一个 2 girls were raised 由 both Parents and the girls had loving relationships with both but were super close to the Fathers..both girls were devoted to family and doing things for their father...they were both loyal,independent but respectful and hard workers who were not about 爱情 but found it in the end....these were from 1998-2009...

I guess after tweaking with the formula so much they thought hmm...well the being raised 由 a evil woman is good so they kept that with Rapunzel and they also must have liked the loving parent duo scenario to so they threw that in (but unlike Auroras these parents did not want to give up Rapunzel and were grieving)...so Rapunzel is docile and sweet and naivie but they also gave her some spunkiness and another dream besides Love...oddly enough it seems the girls that grew up with only fathers turned out too rebellios and stubboroun and spoiled but the girls raised 由 both 或者 just a woman turned out 更多 respectful, obedient,hardworking, and to me personally better role models....Maybe the 迪士尼 company realized in the end a mother figure needed to be 更多 present in the later years.....Merida has both her Parents too...

Usually, they are based on Fairy Tales.......I think

Very often, she just isn't mentioned because she isn't part of the story. It's very likely that most had a mum but she just wasn't in the film. Cinderella, Snow White and Pocahontas' mums are all dead, but the rest are just not there. There's a different.

Well maby because they all died

One rumor is that 迪士尼 didnt put moms in because his own mom died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a house that he bought her

Is 花木兰 even a princess?

I think it's to create sympathy, like 你 said. Besides, a father instead of a mother is 更多 plausible. A mother alone would have trouble caring for a child in those time periods.

I think it's also because a lot of kids have separated parents, some 粉丝 can relate to the princesses. Plus, the creators may not always have the best ideas for making both parents.

Because having a parent absent from a child's life exposes us to that archetypal childhood fear of abandonment, therefore making us 更多 interested in the character and experiencing a sense of pathos that makes us invested in the film. That's why it's in the majority of not just DP movies, but 迪士尼 princesses in general.

1. It´s fairy tale based, neither Snow White, Cinderella, Belle, Ariel 或者 the princess from the frog prince had mothers 或者 they died at the beginning.

2. It´s also very common in 迪士尼 movies, in the old days Walt liked it that way, and i guess it just worked good for 电影院 after his death, too.

if 你 notice the fathers always say somewhere along the line something like 你 look just like your mother, 或者 they have missing parents because the writers wanted to leave it up to 你 that they take strongly after their mothers.