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|family=[[Erin Chambers]] (daughter) <br/> [[Grandma Barksdale]] (mother, name unknown) <br/> [[Helen Morgendorffer]] (sister) <br/> [[Amy Barksdale]] (sister) <br/> [[Daria Morgendorffer]] (niece) <br/> [[Quinn Morgendorffer]] (niece) <br/> [[Brian Danielson]] (son in law) <br/> [[Jake Morgendorffer]] (brother in law)
|significantother= Mr. Chambers (ex-husband) <br/> [[Roger]] (ex-boyfriend) <br/> [[Paul Meyerson]] (boyfriend)
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'''Rita Barksdale''' is [[Helen Morgendorffer]]'s older sister. (For purposes here, her maiden name is used, as her current name in the show was never revealed. It is known she was married to a man named Chambers once, but they divorced.) The mother of one daughter, [[Erin Chambers|Erin]], Rita has had a long succession of boyfriends and possibly husbands.
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.
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.
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]]).
The ages of the various Barksdale sisters—Rita, Helen, and [[Amy Barksdale|Amy]]—remained a mystery until resolved in two interviews with show creator [[Glenn Eichler]], in March 2005. Rita is the oldest, Helen is next, and Amy is the youngest.
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