'I lost my son to the Heaven's Gate cult.' (David Moore's mother laments)

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David Moore joined the cult when he was 19 and always seemed willing and under no duress. He visited his family included his divorced parents twice. His mother contacted the families of other cult members and started a newsletter. She was not prepared for the suicide of her 40-year-old son.

author: Jacobbi, Marianne, Brown, Nancy
Social aspects, Membership, Biography, Cults, Mass suicide, Moore, David, Heaven's Gate (Organization)

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"I'm just like any other mome."(lesbian mother)

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A lesbian woman had a baby, and she and her lover plan to rear the child together. The woman who conceived the baby considered herself heterosexual as a young woman and even married. She discusses meeting her lover and the emergence of their feelings for one another.

author: Ebert, Alan, O'Brien, Maura Gallagher
Personal narratives, Lesbian mothers

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Why a good mother lost custody of her child

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Some judges are giving custody of children to remarried fathers whose new wives do not work. Eileen Adams was in this situation when a judge gave her ex-husband and new wife custody of her son because Eileen was a working mother.

author: Stauth, Cameron
Cases, Custody of children, Child custody, Working mothers, Adams, Eileen

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