(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.
Motherhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
Example Sentences:
(1) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
(2) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
(3) In motherhood an image is being defended, an image of rightness and completeness and happiness.
(4) Now she’s a senior Aboriginal health worker and runs bush medicine clinics for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people alike, as well as running women’s programs to teach young women about things like safe sex, pregnancy and motherhood.
(5) "Women with children are blamed for combining motherhood with paid work, and women with no children are sidelined and discounted because they are not mothers."
(6) A common structure is described in two women's experience in central aspects of their professions and in their thoughts and feelings about motherhood.
(7) It would seem impossible to determine an ethical framework for the practice of surrogate motherhood that does not impinge on the liberties of some or offend others.
(8) The woman has the back of her hand over her eyes – bored, perhaps, or frustrated by demands this particular task of motherhood is placing upon her.
(9) Both tout their domestic credentials and experiences of motherhood.
(10) Stepwise logistic regression analyses on professional and personal background variables showed that gender was related, cross-nationally, to self-reported directiveness in counseling, with men more likely than women to regard directive approaches as appropriate, more likely to give advice about fetuses with low-burden disorders, and more likely to present either IVF with donor egg or surrogate motherhood as options.
(11) Since the mother plays a vital role in the development of her offspring and in the well-being of the family a study was made of the experiences of motherhood amongst two groups of mothers.
(12) A review is provided of social issues posed by the reproductive technologies of artificial insemination by donor, in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer, surrogate motherhood, surrogate embryo transfer, and the implantation of previously frozen embryos.
(13) In this context questions of the nosological entity of anorexia nervosa and depression, motherhood and anorexia nervosa and pre-pubertal as well as postpubertal anorexia are discussed.
(14) The irony is that it's the very people (yes Fox and Friends, I'm talking about you) who go around waxing lyrical about the virtues of motherhood and conception that are also the most likely to be pushing policies that make it next to impossible for many women to even conceive of being a mother.
(15) He defined female life in terms of motherhood, or the failure to become a mother.
(16) Davies, a Welsh law professor, examines four approaches that British law could take toward surrogate motherhood.
(17) Over in Atlanta, Georgia, Jaha Dukureh, a 24-year-old woman originally from the Gambia, was juggling a full-time job in a bank with motherhood.
(18) This review describes the qualities which those who are trainers in safe motherhood and other programs should display.
(19) Motherhood is not only the proverbial hardest job you'll ever love, as the slogan goes – it is also the hardest job you'll ever do.
(20) Under the fiery title, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" , Yale law professor Amy Chua set out a manifesto for motherhood in proudly recounting her iron-fisted reign over her two young daughters, which included the prohibition of sleepovers and the insistence that they attain no grade lower than an A.