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My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
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A child raised by many mothers: What we can learn about parenthood from an indigenous group in Brazil
When filmmaker Renee Nader Messora and her husband, João Salaviza, moved from their home in Sao Paulo to an indigenous Kraho village in Brazil, the couple did not expect to become parents. But Messora, 40, became pregnant with a girl while directing the movie “The Dead and the Others.” When their daughter was born, one of the indigenous actresses picked the baby up and began to breast-feed her. “Maybe that could have been weird and confusing to me if she wasn’t a Kraho, but she is a Kraho and I already knew how family dynamics work in the village,” Messora said.