By Lisa Millar
The first time I heard a young African American man talk about his 'baby mama' I was startled.
"Is she your woman?" he'd been asked by someone sitting next to him on the train where they'd been comparing notes about female body parts.
"Nah, she's just my baby mama. My woman is living in Baltimore," was the reply.
That was eight years ago and I can still remember grabbing a pen and scribbling down the conversation. I hadn't heard the term before. Now its ubiquitous.
It's used to define an unmarried young woman who at some stage was having sex (and children) with a man but never reached the gloried heights of being considered a girlfriend or wife. Read more...
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