With three kids at home, it takes the energy to be a father or a mother.
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Some barbers will have the lady with the side chair who does hair on Wednesdays and Thursdays only, or a mother who brings her son in.
The argument fails to consider yet another reality of life: one parent, either a father or a mother, struggling to earn an income and take care of one child or more, without a spouse for support.
The best recognition I receive every day is when an Arab women comes to show me her new naturalization certificate, or when an Arab American student comes to share news that they have been accepted into a college of their choice, or when a mother has left an abusive relationship and is now safe.
And there will be families that have to deal with reduced hours if a father or mother is a border security guard or an air traffic controller.
But children were nobody else's business for those willing to adopt, or procreate with the methods available to anyone able to pay for donated eggs, sperm or a surrogate mother.
Where we do understand we are all in this together, that when a child is sick and can't see a doctor, the family loses everything because someone had an accident, when a mother or a father lies awake at night worrying about how they possibly care for the people they love.
In the end, there is no program or policy that can substitute for a parent, for a mother or father who will attend those parent-teacher conferences, or help with homework, or turn off the TV, put away the video games, read to their child.
Being a teenage or older mother is also linked to increased risk, as is being underweight.
This career phase directly corresponds with women's childbearing years, forcing many to choose between becoming a mother or an architect.
Although his family wasn't told whether he got the therapy or a placebo, his mother believes he got the drug based on his improvement.
No warning, no thinking that this might be emotional for a mother or dad to get through just an eruption from deep within me where my body literally shook.
According to Reunite, a charity that works to put parents in touch with their children when a father or mother has taken them abroad and defied court rulings, Pakistan is the most popular destination for abductors.
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And you can sort of imagine maybe a mother or father trying to, you know, tie this child somewhere high where she could avoid the rising water, even if like the mother or father couldn't save her.
We can talk all we want about freedom and opportunity, about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but what does all that mean to a mother or father who can't take a sick child to the doctor?
Particularly if you buy a bauble or take her to a place only a mother could love.
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Now, I believe that if you're a middle-class family and the father or mother in that family gets a notice in a couple of days, or has gotten a notice already, that he or she will be getting a furlough notice and that that furlough will take effect in 30 days, that doesn't have an impact on your family in 30 days.
This is how regular people get branded in perpetuity, and their survivors assume a role as perpetual caregiver for their brand, posting new material on Legacy.com on the anniversary of a death, or adding a photograph of their recently lost mother as a young woman on their Facebook page.
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This is particularly true in cases where a child is born after an unplanned pregnancy, a mother finds a new partner, or a father is receiving welfare.
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Because a mother works or is a single parent, it does not, in itself, condemn a child's development.
Can you handle the same hours and workload that you had before becoming a mother, or do you need to scale back?
The law is based on the Orthodox definition of a Jew as someone born of a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism.
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Symptoms may also be more severe, with repeated negative thoughts about the baby, about oneself as a mother, or of causing harm to the infant.
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She may be single, married, a mother, or childless but the common denominator is a desire to learn how to live her life from a position of financial strength.
All I know about you is your one-sentence question, so I don't know whether you are 12 years old and feeling depressed or are the mother of a 12-year-old who has depression.
For the last half century, a twenty-meter high statue called Kartlis Deda, or Mother of Georgia, has stood on a mountain-top overlooking the capital Tbilisi.
It is not easy to explain to a single mother who recently lost her job, or a veteran returning from serving our country, why their bank is sending them a letter offering to modify their loan one day and threatening them with eviction the next.
The only clue Ms. Summers's family said it ever got from her was a phone call her mother, Jennifer, received a month or two after the girl stormed out.
Typically a newborn with an infected mother would be given one or two drugs as a prophylactic measure.
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