Sentences with phrase «serving as a surrogate mother»

At times, he work also entails serving as a surrogate mother to several children, whose mothers are — she supposes — too young and busy to do the job themselves, during her career.

Because the litters that come in are orphaned, the Kitten Nursery staff serves as surrogate mothers, raising the kittens in a way that simulates their natural development.

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Surrogate mothers, such as Richards the nurse of Dombey and Son or David Copperfield's eccentric Aunt Betsey, serve a worthy and important purpose, nurturing children into adulthood.

In the film, titles such as «house,» «mother,» and «reading» emphasize how the subculture the film depicts has taken words from the straight and white worlds, and imbued them with alternate meanings, just as the «houses» serve as surrogate families for young ball - walkers whose sexual orientations have sometimes made acceptance and love within their own families hard to come by.