Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

Mother is water.

There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.

But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations.

...moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.