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April and Shane Divilbiss, who work as a stay-at-home mom and a computer technician, are legally married, but until recently Chris Littrell, a male nurse, lived with them too. No, the two guys don't go for each other; the triad tried a menage a trois once but stopped because Chris thought it was icky. Instead, they lived as man and wife and man, with April taking turns. Together they were raising April's toddler (from a previous relationship), earning a living and wondering how Shane could learn to manage his jealousy when he heard Chris having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henry & Mary & Janet &... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...emotional buoyancy, touches a depth his earlier work danced around, like revelers on a volcano's edge. Mother begins by painting an idyll: of Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse who works in her hospital's organ-transplant unit, and her darling son Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Manuela is the mom every gay, or simply sensitive, son would adore. She watches All About Eve with him, gives him a Truman Capote book for his birthday, takes him to a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He is a sweet, giving lad with a lot of promise. Almodovar is careful and caring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Loving Pedro | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...goes to Barcelona, hoping to find Esteban's father, whom the boy never knew. There, by chance or fate, she meets her flock: Sister Rosa (Penelope Cruz), a nun who deserves many fretful prayers, and her bitter mom (Rosa Maria Sarda); Huma Rojo (Paredes), an actress who is playing Blanche in the touring production of Streetcar that Manuela and her son had seen in Madrid; Huma's druggie lover Nina (Candela Pena); and Agrado (Antonia San Juan), a transsexual prostitute who has raised artifice to a philosophy. "You are more authentic," this dear creature says, "the more you resemble what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Loving Pedro | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...sure, the researchers--sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development--studied 1,300 children from birth to age three, in every child-rearing situation, and concluded that the mother-child relationship often takes a hit when babies are cared for by someone other than Mom. But it's important to note that this concern relates mainly to the child's first year, and especially the first four months. Placing babies in child care during this period can interrupt the process of attachment, when mother and child learn to read one another's signals and expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mother Load | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...matter of time before the generation that is pointing and clicking its way into young adulthood abandons the mall for the mouse. With the launch of three websites this year, and some recent legislation that should put parents more at ease, kids can now shop online just like Mom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Electronic Allowances | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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