These women — cradle Catholics and converts, former nuns, teachers, hospice chaplains, counselors, spouses, mothers, grandmothers — say their defiance is the fulfillment of a vocation, no different than the call answered by their male counterparts.
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Jonathan Bullington,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Oct. 2026
Near the end of the series, there’s one sweet moment of coming together between Evi’s and Vanessa’s mothers and another moment of seemingly genuine outreach by one of the town’s conservatives to King.
Justice Diana Kavedza Mochache said in a hearing lasting more than eight hours that in some cases children were isolated and denied food while their parents watched.
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Jefferson Kahinju Reuters,
Arkansas Online,
20 Oct. 2026
With its orange boxes and quirky prints, Hermès could be seen as whimsical, but it was usually associated with uptight parents and grandparents.
Roseland employees said closing the labor and delivery department will threaten the health of moms-to-be and deepen existing disparities in access for Black women.
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Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
13 Oct. 2026
The San Francisco Bay Area was the second worst place for single moms to live, while San Jose ranked fourth from the bottom of the list.
Mitt reminds me of these famous sports dads — Earl Woods, Richard Williams, Marv Marinovich — who put a golf club or tennis racket or football in their kids’ cribs.
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Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2026
Xu Fu and Ma Junsheng also play surrogate dads to Seif, whose increasingly violent eruptions threaten to change the course of his life more than once.
In a time when companies are guilty of solely fostering young talent and offering legacy staff members early buyouts, aviation continues—at least at the employee level—to embrace wisdom from senior mamas and papas.
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Joey Skladany,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Aug. 2026
Authentic Mexican street tacos, agua frescas and papas asadas (roasted potatoes).
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Ella Gonzales,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 June 2026
These include typecasting Black women as jezebels, sapphires and mammies; these depictions, combined with the law enforcement they may be exposed to, increase their vulnerability under the law.
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Kerry Lester Kasper,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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