By Jawn Murray, BlackVoices.com
Eccentric neo-soul singer Erykah Badu is pregnant with her third child.
The 37-year-old singer disclosed during the Austin City Limits festival, where she wore a fitted white t-shirt with a smiley face, that she is expecting.
The singer has a has a 10-year-old son named Seven Sirius, whose father is Outkast rapper member Andre '3000' Benjamin.
Badu also has a 4-year-old daughter named Puma Rose by rapper The D.O.C.
Though the 'Tyrone' singer hasn't revealed the identity of her unborn baby's daddy, it's speculated that the father is Badu's current boyfriend, rapper Jay Electronica.
The Grammy-winning Badu is currently signed to Motown Records and released her fifth CD, 'New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War,' this past February.
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By: tc on 10/07/2008 1:29PM
i'm beginning to get sick of these celebrities glamorizing single motherhood. and in ms. badu's case glamorizing parenting three children with three different fathers.
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By: Avril on 10/07/2008 2:49PM
I love my sistas, but we need to stop being so irresponsible with our reproductive ability. A 70% out of wedlock birthrate is shameful. Makes us look trifling.
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By: Charlotte on 10/07/2008 4:01PM
Having children by different fathers presents a very awkward situation for the children. Can you imagine what fathers day, birthdays, & holidays are like? Most likely the only father the children will spend special occasions with is the last baby daddy, providing he hangs around. Sooner or later the children are going to compare their fathers to each other. How do you explain to young children why things are the way they are?
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By: Avril on 10/07/2008 6:09PM
#3, You make a very good point.
I would like to know this: with respect to boys and girls coming into their own sexuality, understanding the dynamics and such...how do children from a multi-father family feel about their mom? Not saying that they don't love their mom, but I wonder: do they ever think about the fact that their mom has been with mulitiple men (not counting the men who didn't father her children). How does this effect a young man's mindset when he begins to become involved with young women...and vice versa? Having not ever seen their mothers in loving, committed relationships (marriage, NOT shacking up/playing house), will he ever feel the desire to be married? Will his mindset be that women don't expect more than sex and the ocassional overnight stay? What about young women? Will they even hope for marriage, or expect nothing but a revolving door of men in and out of their lives and bedrooms...just wondering.
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By: Zenobia on 10/08/2008 9:04AM
Uh-huh..I tried this "free love" stuff in the 70's after my husband and I split up. We had two children together. Then I had four more, by four different men.
I can tell you right now, that all that "different" blood in the house is worse than living in Iraq. I am nto be funny. Many times I would pass by a bedroom and hear, "So what, your daddy is in jail" or "at least my daddy brought us some Christmas presents" or "My daddy bought the school supplie". I thought it was halfway cute to call on various "daddies"to pay this bill, or come over and discipline.
It was not cute, then and it's even uglier now, with all the diseases and problems in the world today.
My children grew up without the benefit of a constant gfather, and as a result are still somewhat hostile towards me and each other, and whomever wrote about what happens when the children come into their own sexuality...well honey, its a nightmare. I am over sixty and I tell nothing but the truth. The stars are glamorizing what should be either discouraged or kept in the dark.
Blessings, young people.
You all have the right idea.
Miz Zee
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By: denise on 10/08/2008 9:09AM
Why is it a problem to have a child out of wedlock but ok to be sexually active out of wedlock. I assure you the majority of the people criticizing single motherhood are definintly having sex and probably with more than one person out of wedlock. God said be fruitful and multiply. Man said not to multiply. Also even though they said she was a virgin, guess what! she was pregnant out of wedlock. I also bet these are the same hypocrites that goes to church and preach God, but celebrate man.
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By: read4yrself on 2/23/2009 8:09PM
Mary was engaged/betroth. Back then it was marriage without the sex as you had to be legally divorced to break the engagement.
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By: prettygirl84 on 10/08/2008 9:09AM
I don't see the big flukken deal with being married or not marriage does not mean anything these days. It certainly doesn't mean love and faithfulness or we are going to stay together. I know several men who have married and less than 6 months they have a side whore so what's the dealio??? I'm so tired of people saying that that stops the spread of HIV & AIDS that bull chit! You can marry and your spouse can cheat on you and give you a number of STD's U feel me? So, people act like you got some sense and be realistic stop living in the 30's and commenting about what a marrige is because it not what it once was we need to focus on what a marriage should be......
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By: jc on 10/08/2008 9:27AM
My mother had 7 children with four different fathers but we could not have asked for a better mother. Yes we got into arguments about our dads sometimes but we realized when we got older that our mother had fell in love and the men just left her and it just happened again and again until she finally got married and has been married over 30 years.
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By: miss j on 10/08/2008 11:17AM
i am single mother of 3 and they al have different fathers, and yeah they are dead beats. But to be a woman of 3 lovely children on my own you have to be strong. My children know what there dads are and are not doing so i feel as though there is nothing wrong as long as you raise your childen with love and respect you are doing just fine.!!!!
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