mothers, the

mothers, the

keepers of the bodiless spirits of all who have lived; they supply Faust with an image of Helen of Troy. [Ger. Lit.: Faust]
See: Mysticism
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In describing their children's birth mothers, the adoptive mothers try to reconcile their gratitude for the opportunity to parent with an understanding of how they could relinquish a child.
Nora Rose Moosnick, Adopting Maternity: White Women who Adopt Transracially and Transnationally
For many of the mothers, the most difficult aspect of coping with fathers' absence was the effect it had on their children.
Key determinants of mothers' decisions to allow visits with non-custodial fathers
Often, as treatment transforms their mothers, the children have to get to know them all over again, Smith said.
'Crack Babies': Black Children Defy Stereotypes, Face Bias
Compared with normal mothers, the mutant females took 8 times longer to build nests and 11 times longer to retrieve wayward pups.
Battle of the Sexes
The focus of the study was to present definitions of child support from both noncustodial fathers and custodial mothers, the barriers they experience that prevent child support and visitation, and suggestions the parents have for improvements in the child support system.
Child support payment and child visitation: perspectives from nonresident fathers and resident mothers
Some of these groups were local, but Grant also investigates the role of three national organizations--the National Congress of Mothers, the Child Study Association of America, and the American Association of University Women--in the delicate dance between valuing and resisting "scientific" child-rearing advice.
Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers
Among the mothers, the operation had "no detectable effect on future fertility," the team reports.
Fetal repair: safe for mom, chancy for child
Despite the broad consensus among policy makers, charities and women's groups in favor of some form of subsidy for poor mothers, the passage of the mothers' pensions bill led to sharp conflict over the program's cost, and who would control it.
Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers Pension in Chicago, 1911-1929
Among children with healthy mothers, the younger subjects--between 5 and 6 years old--reported fre symptoms of guilt and little emotional involvement in the problems of others, but the older children in this group displayed a marked increase in guilt.
When guilt goes awry

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