I think there are few people who don't know the Simpson and I think there are few issues that have not been addressed in this series. In one of the chapters of the nineteenth season (the third to be more exact) they deal with the issue of parenting showing part of behavioral methods typical in the purest Supernanny style, but with the usual humor of the series.
In the chapter we can see how Maggie refuses to detach herself from her mother in the plan "mom there is only one (and that's why I don't let her go)" and Marge considers that her daughter is too dependent and that it is a problem she should look for solution.
Bart and Lisa help you register on the website of "CRIE Method" (Creative Responses for Infant Edu-loving - Creative Answers for Lovers of Early Childhood Education), which are education professionals who can go home by day or at night (see sarcasm) because they have no family. After contacting them with a C.R.I.E. He goes (I say, which Supernanny Savior) and teaches Marge to understand how babies work and explains why Maggie is so dependent (although the methods seem to be more of a help to parents than to children) and what she has to do to Maggie be independent and she can "be free to live as a human being".
At that moment Maggie cries, but no, she does not cry !, but celebrates her new independence and hugs are drugs that Marge should avoid because her daughter is addicted to them.
The problem is that the solution works, the methods are a success and the girl becomes totally independent. She prepares breakfast herself, cuts her nails and becomes a self-sufficient girl who doesn't need her mother at all.
Of course the chapter is quite exaggerated in this regard. The level of independence acquired by Marge is brutal and unthinkable in reality. The goal is, I imagine, that people notice how absurd the methods that are used with children are often. And I say absurd because any method that separates or breaks a link as necessary and as healthy as that between parents and their children is to go unnatural.
What is the point of neglecting a baby's cry? What is the point of convincing a mother that her daughter does not need her, when it is clear that the girl wants to share time with her? What's wrong with a mother and daughter feeling the need to be together?
Let everyone draw their own conclusions. I keep the final image in which Maggie begs her mother to take him in her arms, despite the fact that "hugs are a drug".
PS: The chapter shows only the plot that happens with Marge and her daughter Maggie. If you want to see the whole chapter you can do it here.
