What's the difference between fatherhood and fathership?
Fatherhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wade denied that the episode affected his focus during the Finals, but the NBA star regularly speaks about how important fatherhood is to him.
(2) An abstract to his paper in the journal adds: “If demographic trends towards later fatherhood continue, this will likely lead to more children suffering from genetic disorders.
(3) He wrote in his last book, The Unfinished Life: An Odyssey of Love and Cancer , of deliberately trying to compress what should have been long leisurely years of fatherhood into a few months: one daughter needing to understand where he got his beliefs and ideas, while the other "asked me to write down every likely eventuality that might befall her, and supply a satisfactory answer", as if to keep him always by her side.
(4) The adolescents males reported that initially they either were definitely unready for paternity (75%) or were undecided about readiness for fatherhood (21%).
(5) Data on sexual knowledge and behavior, attitudes toward marriage and child rearing, psychological variables, and consequences of fatherhood are presented and implications for mental health practitioners are discussed.
(6) Sure: the frank admission of one successful friend that, although he loved his children, fatherhood simply wasn’t the big driving force in his life, represents an outlook I’m sure is far more common among men than women.
(7) The more emotionally depressed a father was, the more likely it was that he did not like fatherhood (p .0001).
(8) In the Netherlands, the woman's name is used before a man claims fatherhood.
(9) A possible accidental exchange of the child could be excluded by biostatistical calculations of the probabilities of motherhood, fatherhood and parenthood, and the descent from the parents was proven in both generations.
(10) This paper focuses upon the roles of procreation, fatherhood, and identification with the fertile mother in Freud's creation of psychoanalysis.
(11) These results confirm previous findings demonstrating a relation between delinquency and adolescent fatherhood.
(12) That "full-on" fatherhood was very much thrust upon Spike in the early 60s – a time when men were still not expected to care for their children, particularly if they were tiny.
(13) In reference to other literature, the fact that teenage fathers perceived adolescent fatherhood as a normative cultural experience may account for the absence of anxiety or poor self-concept among the young fathers in this study.
(14) In respect to early fatherhood, three main themes were explored: reaction to fatherhood, enjoyment of the child and involvement in childcare.
(15) Fathers, fathering and fatherhood are topics which receive little attention throughout the world's professional literature.
(16) Couvade has been seen as an expression of somatized anxiety, pseudo-sibling rivalry, identification with the fetus, ambivalence about fatherhood, a statement of paternity, or parturition envy.
(17) As part of a prenatal education intervention study, 28 unmarried adolescent fathers responded to a questionnaire containing items about their readiness for fatherhood, antepartal behavioral interactions, and projected postpartal behaviors with their pregnant adolescent partners, as well as their projected behaviors with their infants.
(18) Reaction to fatherhood, enjoyment of the child, and involvement in child care were all significantly correlated with each other (p .0001), especially enjoyment of the child and involvement in child care.
(19) "Fatherhood is a scary thing because as soon as you've done it you've messed up the kid," he says.
(20) Psychotic, neurotic and psychosomatic disturbances, directly promoted by fatherhood condition, seem more frequent than the small number of publications about this subject allow to suppose.
Fathership
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that modern radiation therapy techniques allow post-irradiation fathership in a significant number of patients, without increased risk of neonatal problems or malformations in the children.