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It was a smile a mother gave a child-a smile of indulgence.

Men Don't Leave Me 2010

In its more draconian forms, like a law recently passed in New Jersey, welfare benefits to children are simply cut off after a woman's second child-a form of "reform" that frankly appalls veteran poverty warriors like Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

The Price Of Neglect 2008

He'd spoken to Yvette Harvey; he'd been the one to tell her that her only child-a daughter with Down syndrome-had not survived the shooting at Sterling High.

Nineteen Minutes Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2007

He, too, had a child-a daughter, somewhere back in Scotland with her mother.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

From the beginning she knew the possibility existed that she may have to give up her child-a baby conceived with the man she loved.

Warrior's Baby Whitefeather, Sheri 2000

She was a child-a child growing up in the spotlight.

Drop Shot Coben, Harlan, 1962- 1996

I left the forest for the last time at the birth of their child-a golden-haired girl who resembled her mother, and with the strange, distant cast of her father's eyes.

The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

And when I left, I brought with me a human child-a changeling named Bane-who had figured out the secret to the Kicksey-winsey.

The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993

A vow to some god-a wife and mother determined to keep the child-a self-inflicted pain - who can tell?

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

The Ziminermann telegram did not disturb him even though he did not remember it; it matched a pattern he did remember-again from history, not the direct memories of a very small child-a period of three years, 1914 to 1917, when the United States had inched slowly from neutrality to war.

Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973