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Motherhood Quote by Ricky Martin

"Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family"

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Normal gets rewritten in the small, daily sentences people repeat to their kids. Ricky Martin’s line isn’t trying to win an abstract debate about family values; it’s trying to give his children a script for the world outside the front door. “Every family is different” opens with a shrug at the culture wars, but it’s also a quiet refusal to ask permission. Difference isn’t a problem to solve, it’s a fact to live inside.

The emotional center is the double-role declaration: “I am mom and I am dad.” It’s deliberately blunt, almost childlike phrasing, because it’s aimed at a child’s worry: What am I missing? Martin answers with presence, not theory. The subtext is the burden single parents and queer parents are routinely handed: you must be twice as competent to be considered half as legitimate. “I’m going to do my best” acknowledges that pressure while steering away from defensiveness; love is framed as labor, not a slogan.

Then he flips the usual stigma-management on its head. “You should be proud” doesn’t ask his kids to endure; it asks them to brag. “Coolest family” is strategic: it trades the language of morality for the language of status, which is how kids actually navigate school hallways. “Modern family” lands as both a cultural claim and a pop-cultural wink, placing his household inside a recognizable, mainstream story rather than outside it. The intent is protective and political at once: normalize by narrating.

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Ricky Martin (born November 2, 1971) is a Musician from USA.

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