Ms. Kleinkauf was described by friends as a loving, hard-working single mother who struggled to make a good life for her children.

Scott embraces his return, as he is able to spend time with his hard-working mother.

"He was a good kid and she's a hard-working mother," Mr. Bynoe said.

In the movie's case, a pre-adolescent boy fixates on a celluloid cop to the exclusion of such real heroes as his hard-working single mother.

No," that woman seemed to say with that terrified glance, "don't come back and plague your honest, hard-working mother.

I hope the hard-working mothers and fathers in Roslyn also remember how much the schools improved as a result of my leadership.

However, the church cast out his hard-working mother, who began a relationship with another man after her husband went to jail.

It was a hard-working mother who brought me here and taught me right from wrong.

Others said she was a quiet, hard-working mother who adored the boy and his half-brother and often kept to herself.

And Ms. Donovan, who has portrayed herself as a hard-working single mother, is striving to live up to the title.