Clara Romney

Clara "Clover" Romney (née Goldwhilt) (Born May 22) is the mother of Stephen, Kyle, Kim, and Jason and the wife of Michael. She is portrayed in the strip as a 38-year-old mother. According to the strip, she was also an English major in college. Her own love of education makes her entirely unsympathetic to her two older children's typical hatred of school and homework, which she expects them to love as much as she did. While earlier strips portrayed her as a freelance writer and columnist for

a local newspaper, references to her job were gradually dropped and she has mostly been portrayed as a stay-at-home mother.