Word: motherhood
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...fair that the Diva Divine makes albums only as vacations from movies and motherhood, for her genius is as a singer-entertainer. Midler's vocal voltage and pristine song salesmanship are on display here in tunes by Leonard Cohen, Chuckii Booker, Carole King, Ben Folds--lots of fine folk. Her voice can ache with hard-won wisdom (on the first single, My One True Friend) or smile with the sweet clarity of her Honolulu youth (Gus Kahn's 1925 Ukulele Lady). Songs like Laughing Matters, I'm Beautiful and I'm Hip give the album the sassy intimacy...
...Zion gurgling and making baby yelps in a nearby room. When you came in, you could see Hill's tummy bulge under her blue overalls--the 23-year-old mom has another baby due in October. Now you can't see anything. You can just hear her voice. Motherhood is on her mind. What kind of parent will she be? Hip-hop is on her mind. Does her work have social worth? It's all swirling in her thoughts in the dark...
...little man, Charles, who arrived last week, all 7.5 lbs. and 20.5 in. of him. Foster has steadfastly refused to name the father and intends to bring up the child alone, or as alone as movie stars ever are. But she has a good example of single motherhood to follow: her mother Brandy raised Foster and her three siblings on her own. And Jodie turned out O.K. "Anybody who has a child is fearful of not measuring up," she told the New York Daily News. "But I hope I'll have some of [my mother's] passion...
...boys are as swaggering as ever, more girls are insisting on condom use. The disease has also led to more frank talk and pleas for abstinence from parents and school and community-center health classes. Another surprising possibility is that teens are again attaching an old stigma to unwed motherhood. Marquita Kinsey, 15, dolled up in a Tommy Hilfiger dress, describes a neighborhood girl who became pregnant and quickly an outcast. "You lose a lot of friends," she says. "She had a baby shower and nobody came...
What really shook me was her opening line. What was she thinking? Was it honestly her expectation that I preserve my junior college ignorance and naivete into my 30s and 40s? And then was I to morph, with marriage and motherhood, suddenly and traumatically into final adulthood? The realization was breathtakingly frightening...