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Certainly, this must have been a traumatic experience... finding out he's going to be a father, arranging for the birth, keeping the birth-mother working in his household for the next ten years-plus, not telling his wife, telling his wife, telling us...

Doug Molitor: Doug's Dozen: 12 Schwarzenegger Catchphrases About His Love-Child Doug Molitor 2011

But that's what makes it more important -- because climate change is relevant to our lives and futures in a way that the speculation about Trig Palin's birth-mother is not.

Sahil Kapur: Climate Truthers: Why Global Warming Deniers Are Conspiracy Theorists, Not Rational Skeptics Sahil Kapur 2011

But that's what makes it more important -- because climate change is relevant to our lives and futures in a way that the speculation about Trig Palin's birth-mother is not.

Sahil Kapur: Climate Truthers: Why Global Warming Deniers Are Conspiracy Theorists, Not Rational Skeptics Sahil Kapur 2011

But that's what makes it more important -- because climate change is relevant to our lives and futures in a way that the speculation about Trig Palin's birth-mother is not.

Sahil Kapur: Climate Truthers: Why Global Warming Deniers Are Conspiracy Theorists, Not Rational Skeptics Sahil Kapur 2011

That may partly account for the so-far stagey quality of the episodes involving Jesse (Dane DeHaan), a 16-year-old gay male adoptee confronting a birth-mother problem — who could ask for anything more?

Make an Appointment Dorothy Rabinowitz 2010

When Sarah tells Abraham to cast Ishmael out along with his birth-mother Hagar, "the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son."

Peter Ochs, Ph.D.: Renewing Abraham's Children in the New Year and Liberating Them from the Old Ph.D. Peter Ochs 2010

That's why, as I send my own mother a card this Mother's Day, I write this to honor my daughter's birth-mother, and every other woman who has made the difficult decision not to parent a child she has brought into this world.

Joanne Bamberger: Happy Mother's Day, China Mom 2008

It was ethnic nationalism that was the birth-mother of the country of Georgia.

Understanding Georgia versus Russia in the Caucasus Crisis 2008

Professor/critic Ellen Handler-Spitz doesn't like "Horton Hatches The Egg" on the basis that the cute little Elephant Bird hatchling's birth-mother Mayzee is not allowed to reclaim custody, upon her return from holiday-making in sunny climes to retrieve the baby from surrogate mom Horton.

Who's Our Enid? Roger Sutton 2006

I wonder if she looks like her birth-mother and if I'm seeing China Mommy's face when I gaze at my daughter's.

Joanne Bamberger: Happy Mother's Day, China Mom 2008