Questions: Family & Friends

I recently chanced upon a local news article about a debate on whether people thought mam or mum was the proper familiar term for mother. (Here in Wales where spellings change from village to village such arguments aren't that unusual).
The article. Warning full of ads and pretty boring
Mam and mum are common throughout the UK, mam is often shorten to ma' by the criminal classes and the American mom isn't popular.
But what's most common in your neighbourhood/family?

The story was told recently at my workplace. Long ago, a 3-4 year-old girl got raped, the child rapist was eventually caught and given a life-sentence.

Even though the girl later on had no recollection of that horrible event, she still suffered from anxiety and extreme shyness she couldn't explain why. She got her issues solved and proceeded to having a relationship. At some point she finds why she can't have kids and her dream of being a mother is destroyed. Her family had to sadly tell her what happened. She was very upset they kept that information from her. She became depressed. The girl's family already knew she wouldn't ever be able to have kids after they brought her to the doctor at the time but they tried to make her happy. They thought that if she didn't remember the event, she can try living a normal life at least.

If something horrible like that happened to you during your early years, you don't remember it... would you still want to know about it?