21.   Miss McKirdy leaves the mothers of ballet, gymnastics and figure skating, mothers whose pushiness and paranoia are legendary, far behind.

22.   My mother was left with four children who soon became five when my younger sister was born two months after my father died.

23.   My mother was left with two children in a crumbling apartment.

24.   She finds it hard to forgive Nick for leaving her mother, who has been hospitalized for depression.

25.   She left her mother with her brother and hurried to meet her father.

26.   That left his mother to raise two boys on whatever she could make working in the theater.

27.   The pain of losing three babies never leaves a mother, says Martin.

28.   Two children die in a car accident, leaving the mother in a suicidal depression.

29.   When she arrived in New York, it was the first time she had left her mother.

30.   He had told his sons he was depressed by his stomach cancer and did not want to leave their mother behind.