A person's mother-in-law is the mother of his or her spouse. Mothers-in-law are often stereotyped in mother-in-law jokes.

A person is a son-in-law or daughter-in-law to the mother-in-law.

She and the father-in-law are the parents of the spouse and in a nuclear family of his or her sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law. They all together are the in-laws.

In comedies, the mother-in-law is shown as the bane of the husband, who is married to the mother-in-laws daughter. See Mother-in-law joke

Hit song by Ernie K-Doe in 1961, peaked at #1 on the R&B and Pop charts.

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