Word: mothered
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Ever since Barbie and her reality-defying curves stepped into the playhouse, parents have complained that dolls promote an unattainable image of beauty. It's a particularly piquant point for Lexington, South Carolina mother Mary Ann Perry, whose 23-year-old daughter Valerie lives with Down Syndrome. "Dolls represent real people in the imagination of a young person," Perry says. "I don't want Valerie to think she has to be conventionally beautiful to be loved." So when Valerie asked for a doll at Christmas, her mother bypassed buxom Barbie and purchased Elizabeth (retail price: $175) from S.C.-based retailer...
...Richardson's performances seem more precious now because they are lodged only in the memories of grateful theatergoers. They may have flashed through the minds of her family members on their death watch, but surely the more indelible impressions are ones we can't know: of daughter, wife, mother. Her loved ones don't care that Natasha Richardson was famous, and a child of fame - only that she is gone...
...fled the state, changed her name, and lived a leisurely life of lies and deception in Minnesota, while the children of Myrna Opsahl were forced to grow up without a mother." -Jeff Denham, a California state senator, in a letter to Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's governor, that requested Olson not be permitted to return to her adopted state for parole. (AP, March...
...Girl scouts, the Rainbows, Sunday school." -Olson's mother, when asked in 1975 about the interests held by her daughter, the president of her high school's pep club...
...Internet censorship comes in the form of a lowly alpaca. Actually, the alpaca-like creature starring in online videos and lining Chinese store toy shelves is a mythical "grass-mud horse" - whose name in Chinese sounds just like a vulgar expression involving a sex act and, well, your mother. Bawdy as it may seem, an Internet children's song about the animal, full of lewd homophones, has emerged as a galvanizing protest against the Communist government's efforts to ban "subversive" material - political dissent, most importantly - from the web. Purportedly a harmless fantasy, the wink-wink, giggle-giggle creation...