Twenty years ago, Hope Edelman, author of the bestseller "Motherless Daughters," founded a global support network for women who, like her, were young when their mothers died – to share tears, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hope Edelman: motherlessness is not all bad news, she argues (Crosbyrobert/CC4.0) I first read this book in New York, when I was ...

When my mother died suddenly 30 years ago, I was 13. I’d spend the next 20 years attempting to understand what it means not to have a mother. And I did this basically alone. Mostly, this was because ...

Edelman (Motherless Daughters) returns with a charming memoir full of self-deprecating honesty that defies easy categorization. Edelman is forced to seek a solution to the sudden appearance of her ...

Motherless children can attend special summer camps, for instance, or Mother's Day retreats like those hosted by the Massachusetts-based non-profit EmpowerHer, which works with girls whose mothers ...

Contributed by Hope Edelman, author of The AfterGrief: Finding Your Way Along the Long Arc of Loss. If ever a year of collective grief were to appear in our lifetimes, 2020 just raised its hand and ...