"mother's little helper" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, page 58",
          "text": "Bored with the emptiness of her life, she was said to be increasingly turning to the consolations of “mother's little helper”—new lines of tranquilizing drugs, such as Librium and Miltown, meant to soothe the female anxieties that Betty Friedan decried in her bestselling The Feminine Mystique.",
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        "A tranquilizer taken to reduce anxiety; meprobamate, diazepam."
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