Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

It was horrible to hear the children's screams. Some children were yelling for their mothers and fathers.

Even now, where you have single fathers raising their children too, not just single mothers.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys";