6 sentences with 'mothers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mothers and other words derived from it.
• « Women, by definition, could not be citizens, although in certain cases, as in the Athens of Pericles, they could assume an honourable social role as mothers of citizens. »
• « Not only were slaves captured in war, but children born to slave mothers were automatically slaves as well. »
• « For social Darwinists, the "unfit" included alcoholics, promiscuous people, single mothers, criminals, the developmentally disabled and those with congenital disabilities. »
• « Freud's theories revolved largely around sexual instincts and their repression; Freud invented several specific concepts such as the 'Oedipus complex', the idea that young boys sexually desire their mothers and fear their fathers' authority, and 'penis envy', the claim that girls are psychologically wounded by not having male genitalia, which he believed were fundamental to the human psyche. »
• « Although the reason for the vitamin's effectiveness is not yet known, it has been observed that mothers of babies with these defects have abnormally high levels of a substance called homocysteine. »