House of Boys
Franklin is a mother of four sons. I can only imagine what it would be like for anyone to deal with four boys. However, Franklin had her first two songs by the time she was just 14. Now that I can’t imagine. She had her first child when she was 12 years old, and the second when she was 14. Being a teen mom was difficult for the singer, and she ultimately had to drop out of school.
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Basically, she had Clarence and Edward before her first single even came out. Years later, she had two more sons named Theodore and Kecalf. Aretha does credit her family for helping her as a teen mom. She stated, “My grandmother helped me a lot, and my sister and my cousin. They would babysit so could get out occasionally.”