Merry arrived seven years after her mother had her first child and she was quite a Christmas gift.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

The mother has to save Bill from getting punished and,in the process, she teaches her husband a lesson.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

She had to tell her mother! And Cazeau! As she thought of him, a whole new sense of life swept over her.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

As a child Lucille would sit on her mother's lap and listen as she read poetry.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

She also helped her mother and sister earn money by washing clothes for white people.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Then,she walked downstairs past her brother and mother, got on her horse and rode away.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

She did not know her father and lived with a mother who had mental problems.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Before that,she had lived with her mother and father in a dirty,crowded factory town.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

They began calling her "mother," and she started using the name Mother Jones.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

She was one of eleven children. Her mother was Irish and Dutch.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

She screamed and struggled when her mother tried to control her.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

She and her brother stayed with their mother.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

And she was very good at it. She also seemed to feel most safe when she was at home with her mother and father, or riding a horse on her family's land.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Her mother Cathy also has the mittens, and Stephanie says she got them before the Games began in Victoria,British Columbia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

When she showed the letter to her mother,my grandmother, looked at her and said, 'You're not going anywhere.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

As negotiations for their release dragged on, Lindhout says she was routinely beaten and forced to call her mother by phone to plead for payment.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

But her mother who lives nearby is sick. And she is worried she will not be able to visit as often if she is housed far away.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

With the family in a dire situation, the woman had to ask her husband and mother-in-law for permission to sell the tapestries and crafts she could produce.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

His mother,Erzsebet Csorba, lives next to the destroyed home where she lost her son and grandson, on a muddy road in the Hungarian village of Tatarszentgyorgy, She tells VOA that she will never forget what happened that night.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22