1.   I had no idea what to expect, but I was touched when my daughter and her mothers group decided to come to support me.

2.   Look for a mothers group, or start one of your own.

3.   The mothers group was the brainchild of Charlotte Brandon, whose son Terrell is a two-time All-Star point guard for the Milwaukee Bucks.

4.   There is a storefront mediation center, a black and Jewish mothers group, and an effort to add black youngsters to the private Jewish security patrols.

5.   Charlotte Brandon said she made it a mothers group instead of a parents group because she found many NBA players were reared without fathers.

6.   The mothers group has been very active in trying to obtain information about Russian soldiers missing or killed in Chechnya.