In the most desperate cases, she said, mothers give up their children for money or other things.

What other mother would give up her child when she has no one?

In spite of that, his mother does not give up hope on him.

"Why would a mother give up her baby to somebody who put an ad in a paper?"

His mother gave up farming and he took things over.

"Your mother would not give that up for me," he said.

He felt only that a mother never gives up hope.

But the real mother gave up her claim in order to save the child.

Two years ago, his mother had given up smoking entirely.

Why had her mother given up the child if she cared so much?