motherless

When Motherless Brooklyn won the National Book Critics Circle Award, I felt I could exhale, after working frenetically.

What we learn throughout the course of the film is that being the child of a felon doesn't have to mean growing up motherless.

Among the family at her side was her husband John, the father of her now-motherless children, who will need him to go on.

Motherless babies are far less likely than others to survive their first two years.

Behind these statistics are the stories of promising lives cut short and of the motherless children left behind.

Motherless children are always taken care of, she answered trying to speak lightly.

How shall we, how can we virtuously bring up our motherless little sister?

Then Georgie took the blanched hand of the motherless girl, and entreated her.

Her daughter, the object of her most idolatrous love, is left fatherless and motherless in this cold world.

He has done generous by these yer poor little lambs that he loved and sheltered, and that's left fatherless and motherless.