The latest single to be released from third American Idol winner Fantasia's debut album Free Yourself is Baby Mama. It's a great song. Now I understand that there are weirdos out there in the US raising a fuss about the song because they think it promotes single-motherhood and having children out of wedlock.

Maybe I've just been living a particularly sheltered life but I cannot imagine any teenaged girl listening to this song and then thinking in her head, "Golly gee! I'm love Fantasia so much, I'm gonna get my boyfriend to impregnate me and make me a baby momma today!" Does anyone actually want to be a teenaged, single mother today?

Besides, I don't know why these self-appointed guardians of morality don't channel their energies to something that will actually result in some good. If they care so much about single mothers, why don't they go about raising awareness about safe sex and contraceptives in schools? There are so many things in this world that could use some moral outrage, like hate crimes, racism, sexual discrimination. In fact, I think all those portrayal of thuggery in those music videos of MTV, complete with scantily clad women portrayed as nothing more than sex objects, have plenty of objectionable material for these people to get worked up over. But what do they do instead? Start making noise about a song that tells single mothers to be strong and hold on because they are not pariahs of society but women worthy of respect. Talk about screwed-up priorities really. This is why I don't care for all these FCC-wannabe groups anyway. They bark often but they never actually do anything useful for anybody.

Anyway, here are the words to the song. I really don't think there is anything in this song that promotes single motherhood as the way to be, except maybe for the line "... it's like a badge of honor". In fact, if anything, this song merely salutes the single mothers who are breaking their backs to make ends meet and make sure that their kids are raised right.

Chorus:
B-A-B-Y M-A-M-A
This goes out to all my baby mamas
This goes out to all my baby mamas
B-A-B-Y M-A-M-A
This goes out to all my baby mamas
I got love for all my baby mamas

It's about time we had our own song
Don't know what took so long
Cuz nowadays it's like a badge of honor
To be a baby mama
I see ya payin' ya bills
I see ya workin' ya job
I see ya goin' to school
And girl I know it's hard
And even though ya fed up
With makin' beds up
Girl, keep ya head up
All my

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I see you get that support check in the mail
Ya open it and your like "What the hell"
You say "This ain't even half of daycare"
Sayin to yourself "This shit ain't fair"
And all my girls who don't get no help
Who gotta do everything by yourself
Remember: What don't kill you can you stronger
My baby mama

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Cuz we the backbone (of the hood)
I always knew that (that we could)
We can go anywhere, we can do anything
I know we can make it if we dream
And I think it should be a holiday
For single mothers tryin' to make a way
But until then
Here is your song
Show love to my

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