Like many observers, Professor Thompson uses the example of the imaginary June Cleaver, the mother on "Leave It to Beaver."

VOA: special.2009.05.04

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

The actress who played the mother was Anne Bancroft, the lover was Dustin Hoffman and the movie was "The Graduate."

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Ms.Chua is a professor at the Yale Law School in New Haven,Connecticut, and the mother of two daughters.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

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

VOA: special.2009.05.04

The mother had believed that her son had been killed several months earlier in the Korean War.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Today,we tell about Rosa Parks, who has been called the mother of the American civil rights movement.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

This helps the baby to start breathing and get settled in the new environment outside the mother.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

A very tall statue of the mother of Ramses looks over another room in the Egyptian museum.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Missus Compson, the mother in the family, says of God's actions: "It can't be simply to.hurt me.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

She took pictures of peasant women, village children, and even the mother of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Often the mother had to be treated in a hospital for long periods of time.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

The risk of having a baby with Down syndrome increases with the mother's age.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

The mother of three is also an author, life coach and creator of motherdaughterweekends.com.

VOA: special.2010.04.23