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Maggie catches a break when she meets Jorge (Vladimir Vega), a gentle Paraguayan refugee. But as they try to create their own family, Maggie's past haunts them. So does her bad temper. Brutalized as a child, she has a vicious streak and a suspicion of Jorge's goodness. Any man who doesn't strike her--and strike out at the system she believes oppresses her--well, he can't be a real man, can he? Heroically, Jorge endures Maggie's depressions, rages and physical abuse. All he can do is love...
Maggie catches a break when she meets Jorge (Vladimir Vega), a gentle Paraguayan refugee. But as they try to create their own family, Maggie's past haunts them. So does her bad temper. Brutalized as a child, she has a vicious streak and a suspicion of Jorge's goodness. Any man who doesn't strike her- and strike out at the system that she believes oppresses her-well, he can't be a real man, can he? Heroically, Jorge endures Maggie's depressions, rages and physical abuse. All he can do is love...
...real-family values" says TIME movie critic Richard Corliss. Based on a true story, it traces the life of Maggie Conlon, who has had four kids by four men, been battered and had her children snatched from her by Social Services. Maggie gets a break when she meets a Paraguayan refugee, but she is unable to make the most of this relationship. Corliss highly recommends this movie saying it is "more painful to watch than any slasher film, because its emotional violence literally hits home...
...deeper than mere goods, it is souls that are mingling. In Brussels, a center of the new "unified Europe," 1 new baby in every 4 is Arab. Whole parts of the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion are largely Korean. And when the prostitutes of Melbourne distributed some pro-condom pamphlets, one of the languages they used was Macedonian. Even Japan, which prides itself on its centuries-old socially engineered uniculture, swarms with Iranian illegals, Western executives, Pakistani laborers and Filipina hostesses...
Women who embark on single motherhood cannot overestimate what "a tremendous undertaking" it is, says Suzanne Bates, 42, a Manhattan certified public accountant who has adopted a Paraguayan baby girl. Every parental concern, from finding child care to coping with illness, weighs more heavily on the single parent. As for the children, no one can yet say what the psychological consequences will be. Will these families be any different from the countless American households in which a father is missing through divorce or death? Many single mothers argue that the truly wanted child of a single mother is better...