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Refrigerator Mothers is a documentary released in 2003 by Kartemquin Films for PBS's P.O.V. series. Kartemquin Films is a not-for-profit organization that was founded in 1966 by Gordon Quinn, Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter three University of Chicago graduates who The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the POV ("point of view" is a PBS television series which features independent nonfiction films The film paints an intimate portrait of an entire generation of American mothers whose children were diagnosed with autism. Language development. The terminology Labeled "refrigerator mothers" in the 1950s and 1960s by the medical establishment for their supposedly frigid and detached mothering, these women have emerged with strong, resilient voices to share the details of their personal journeys. The term refrigerator mother was coined around 1950 as a label for Mothers of children diagnosed with Autism.



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