</noinclude> Barbara Healy is the unstable, alcoholic, abusive biological mother of Mark and David Healy. When she moves to Minnesota, David doesn't want to move with her, and after Roseanne discovers what kind of mother she is, she allows David to live with the Conners.
According to Mark, Barbara and her husband kicked him out when he was 16 and treated David like crap. They had never bothered to even call them. She did not come to David's wedding.