11.   Even if your father left your mother while you were still in the womb.

12.   Her father was killed during the war, leaving her mother to fend for eight children amid daily bombings in their hometown of Danang.

13.   His childhood was scarred when his father left his mother for the next-door neighbor.

14.   His father, who left his mother when she was three months pregnant, was a carpenter, his mother a sometime factory worker.

15.   His father had left his mother before he was old enough to remember.

16.   His father left, leaving his mother to work three jobs to care for her children.

17.   I left their mother.

18.   It was often the case, Pantelidis said, that a twin was taken so that the mother would be left with a child.

19.   Jennifer Zorn said the discovery has left her mother, two sisters and brother with mixed emotions.

20.   Lloyd Thuchila, a pipe fitter, said his father had left his mother shortly after he was born.