Ghica also reported his aunt's astonishment upon discovering that Mateiu Caragiale was using the building to house his destitute mother.
The often destitute mothers of the resulting children usually received no child support.
Even barren and stripped, the destitute mother possessed the power to destroy what she had wrought.
When he was an infant, his parents divorced and his destitute mother sent him to live with grandparents, immigrants from Hungary who spoke no English.
A destitute mother of 10 well fed children pointed out "a bank of food" from which she fed her family.
Newborn children, left by their destitute mothers on the steps of the foundling home, died more often than not and this was quietly condoned by the authorities.
Their mother Frances Rawlings returned to her mother, destitute and disease-ridden, to die of consumption before 10 March 1810.
The poll asked where the children of young, unwed, destitute mothers should be raised: at home, or in an institution?
The Stooges help a destitute mother and her daughter by utilizing the money from the child's piggy bank, and ultimately winning a horse race.
She spends her life as a destitute mother whose only dream is to raise her children the best way she can.