foster mother

The early Pali Vinaya texts in the Buddhist canon recount how Buddha thrice rejected the request of his foster mother, Mahaprajapati, to be ordained, before his disciple, Ananda, persuaded him to accept women into the monastic body.

In 1986, after she met a woman who had been a foster mother for several years, Owens looked around her empty living room and thought she could do the same.

A former public defender and foster mother, she held onto the seat in 2019 but stepped down in December to focus full time on the race.

As he prepared to go into combat, Gutierrez had written to his foster mother.

The foster mother of one of the accusers testified about what a sweet little boy he had been.

She described her mother as a scam artist and drug addict who left her to be raised by a foster mother until the age of 12.

He credits the “Christian” influence of his foster mother, Betsy Shirley, a woman he clearly adores.

So I said to my foster-mother, "Give me the third cake on the griddle until I go after my foster-sisters."

The changeling himself in one of Lady Wilde's tales directs his foster-mother to Fairyland.

They had been constantly together for over a year, and his foster-mother had grown very much attached to him.

When he came, a spell was applied, according to the directions of his foster-mother and certain witches.

So far from teaching them to climb and build nests behind water-tanks, their foster-mother never got over her astonishment at it.