There is evidence that a strong mother-son bond prevents delinquency in adolescence.
Somehow, when so many of our other beliefs about the roles of men and women have been revolutionized, our view of the mother-son relationship has remained frozen in time.
From a mother-and-son duo to an English couple celebrating their anniversary, everyone I met extended their stay, and many discussed quitting their jobs to join the Lazy Beach staff, something that's happened more than once.
Suddenly the telephone rings - it's the call mother and son have been dreading - the camp commander searching for Maxim.
The 36-year-old mother-of-two had been travelling with her young son to visit her mother in central France.
Mrs Cameron - who has three children - also heard from a mother whose three-year-old son was shot by a sniper next to his six siblings as they fled Syria in a car.
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The singer, who found fame for his dancing in the Happy Mondays in the late-1980s, flew into a rage about money and throttled Ms Ward - the mother of his two-year-old son - in May.
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He was accompanied at today's presentation by his wife Gillian, nine-year-old daughter Aisling, six-year-old son Michael, mother Mary, father Billy and father-in-law Michael Roe.
That was a singular choice for the California-born son of a Swedish-American mother and a Japanese-American father, though maybe not such a strange one, given his rich family heritage.
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By the 1970s, Serlin was a wife and mother of two--a son, Brad, and a daughter, Cindy.
Galli grew up in middle-class Pittsburgh, the son of a doting mother and a hard-nosed father with an eighth-grade education who still works most days at the junkyard he has owned for 50 years.
Growing up in London's working-class East End, the son of a teaching-assistant mother and truck-driver father, Mr. Marsan says he knew he wanted to become an actor from an early age.
Later, a mother and her 7-year-old son walked by on their way to school and saw him.
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Back home in Kenya, her 3-year-old son watched his mother's triumph on television.
While in Hawaii, he met a fellow explorer who later became his wife and is now the mother of his five-month-old son.
In 1994 she moved with her 4-year-old son to her mother's house.
While in New York on Monday, Bruni-Sarkozy spoke with a small group of women at a reception and described how she balances pursuing her career while still handling her duties as first lady and mother to her nine-year-old son, Aurelien.
Mr Abdel-Fattah's mother, Layla Soueif, told state-owned Ahram Online that her son was acting to safeguard his family.
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Phillipos, the 19-year-old son of a single mother, said he wanted to see for himself whether the TV reports were true.
The 33-year-old mother then says Hundley slapped her son in the face.
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"This could be Trayvon, " the hoodie-clad mother said, nodding to her son as the wail of police sirens tore through the night air.
"He came off the court with a sore shoulder, his hand was callused, he has never had to work so hard, " said Donna McKennon, Max's mother, after her son lost a two-hour, 45-minute match.
Edward Fandrey told reporters Sunday that police received a 911 call about 3:30 p.m. from a mother reporting that her 5-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter disappeared from their home in Central Islip, about 50 miles east of New York City.
Mr Colfer-Williams' mother, Angela Colfer said her son had recently been treated at Swansea's Morriston Hospital for asthma.
Max's mother had to say good-bye to her sick son and drive separately.
"I was very suspicious over that, " said Alecia Mercer, the mother of Small's 3-year-old son, about the first cause of death that military officials told her.
They said that because I was darker than Father and Mother I was really the son of my great-grandfather, who was, by all accounts, nearly as dark as I am.
Just over 31 years after the event, her son decided to trace his birth mother - Ms Short having notified the adoption agency that she wanted to be contacted if ever her child desired it.
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