He wouldn't go with them, not without his mother and father.
Think about your four children and what it must be like for them growing up without their mother.
He didn't know how to go on without your mother'.
He didn't say anything about the children growing up without their mother.
It was the only way they had survived out here without her mother.
It was hard for both of them without David's mother.
She is also preparing for the family's first Thanksgiving without her mother.
To begin with, I wondered, how could we go on living without my mother?
We would not take a child without its mother, for instance.
The catch was that he could not do it without his mother.