"mother" in the Big Book

My brother-in-law is a physician, and through his kindness and that of my mother I was placed in a nationally-known hospital for the mental and physical rehabilitation of alcoholics.

But for every man who drinks others are involved— the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.

Perhaps at this point we got a divorce and took the children home to father and mother.

Mother may complain of inattention.

Sometimes mother and children don’t think so.

Little by little, mother and children will see they ask too much, and father will see he gives too

He may tell mother, who has been religious all her life, that she doesn’t know what it’s all about, and that she had better get his brand of spirituality while there is yet time.

Liquor incapacitated father for so many years that mother became head of the house.

Mother made all the plans and gave the directions.

Thus mother, through no fault of her own, became accustomed to wearing the family trousers.

Instead of developing new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.

Without saying so, they may cordially hate him for what he has done to them and to their mother.

This may hang on for months, long after their mother has accepted dad’s new way of living and thinking.