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We know Rita doesn't work. Her source of income is not said, but it's implied she gets quite a bit from her mother.

[[Image:Erin_annoyed.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Erin snaps at Rita over her then-boyfriend.]]

She dotes on her daughter Erin, though she detests her husband [[Brian Danielson]]. When her daughter was getting divorced, Rita wanted to her to get a devastating settlement from Brian. Rita has said she didn't work because raising Erin was more important; however, she referred to that in the ''present'' tense as if Erin was still a dependent, even though Erin was twenty four and had a job of her own.

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She dotes on her daughter Erin, though she detests her husband [[Brian Danielson]]. When her daughter was getting divorced, Rita wanted to her to get a devastating settlement from Brian. Rita has said she didn't work because raising Erin was more important; however, she referred to that in the ''present'' tense as if Erin was still a dependent, even though Erin was twenty four and had a job of her own. Erin, in "I Don't", at one point expresses irritation with her mother over her "pathetic boyfriend making a scene", sounding like this is a long-running point of contention with Erin; Rita is notably upset to hear this.

According to Helen, Rita was their mother's favorite daughter, which has led to strained relations between the sisters. Rita, for her part, denies that she was the favourite and views ''Helen'' as working so hard that she made Rita (and Amy) look bad, something she thought Helen was doing deliberately. She views Amy as deliberately avoiding contact with everyone, and views both women as having deliberately ostracised their mother by never contacting her. All three sisters appeared at the same time in the episodes "[[I Don't]]" and "[[Aunt Nauseum]]"; in the latter, they finally (we hope!) buried their past arguments and made up (thanks to nudging from [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]]).