A modern-day Cinderella loses her prince on her wedding day and flees to the capital to live with her gay uncle under a new identity. She gives birth to a son conceived with her ex-boyfriend and begins writing a column that becomes a hit.
Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an adjustment for everyone, especially the cranky, argumentative Thelma.
George raises daughter Carmen and dyslexic son Max with his wife Angie, after surviving a miserable, dysfunctional childhood at the hands of his neglectful alcoholic mother Benny.