Jewish mother stereotype
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The Jewish mother or wife stereotype is a common stereotype and stock character used by Jewish comedians and authors, usually when discussing (fictionally or not) their mothers. The stereotype generally involves a nagging, overprotective, manipulative, controlling, smothering, and overbearing mother or wife, one who persists in interfering in her children's lives long after they have become adults. Lisa Aronson Fontes describes the stereotype as one of "endless caretaking and boundless self-sacrifice" by a mother who demonstrates her love by "constant overfeeding and unremitting solicitude about every aspect of her children's and husband's welfare[s]".
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