In some cases the child takes the mother's surname as a middle name and the father's name as the family name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Mother Jones is recognized in the National Women's Hall of Fame and the United States Labor Department's Labor Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Mothers learn to carry preterm babies in front instead the traditional African way of carrying a baby, on the mother's back.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

His mother's increasing deafness led the young man to study acoustics -- the way we hear and how sounds are made.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Her mother, Katharine Martha Houghton, was a great supporter of women's rights issues including the right to birth control.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

But his middle name is Miles which is my mother's maiden name." "Elizabeth is named after my grandmother.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

shouted a happy voice. And with a little sobbing cry Bobby's mother opened her arms to her son.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

He had Huntington's Chorea, the same disease of the brain and nervous system that had killed his mother.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

So Baptiste killed his daughter's murderer with his own hands, and returned forever to his mother's people.

VOA: special.2010.11.06

He continued working in his mother's theater company as an actor and a manager until nineteen thirteen.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

he wrote about his mother's ability to correctly identify her children's sicknesses when the doctors were wrong.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

For example, the character "Treemonisha" receives music lessons paid for by her mother who cleans people's houses.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

"My mother's was Virginia so we named after her and my wife Caty's middle name is Allison.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

He is moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with his wife, Michelle, their two daughters and Michelle's mother.

VOA: special.2009.01.16