It was my delicate duty to call on the distraught mother late at night.

My 85-year old father died, leaving me with a very distraught elderly mother.

As a distraught young mother, all that mattered to me was the soul of my lost child.

Still trying to pretend his wife was the average distraught mother of missing children.

The distraught mother picked up the girl and held her.

A distraught mother killed two of her children by setting fire to their bedroom this afternoon, fire officials said.

The ragged children and the distraught mother seem even worse off than they did a few days before.

A distraught mother wasn't the kind of PR the hospital had in mind.

His distraught mother, Candy Graham, did not know what to do.

But when his distraught mother called the police for help, she was told, "There's nothing anyone can do unless he commits a crime."