(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.
Parenthood
Definition:
(n.) The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The videos galvanized a reaction against Planned Parenthood among pro-life activists and politicians.
(2) Planned Parenthood denies the accusations, saying it donates fetal tissue to medical research companies at no cost.
(3) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
(4) Britain's Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) seems to have badly miscalculated in discounting the political necessity of immediately introducing legislation to ban surrogate parenthood arrangements.
(5) Although Planned Parenthood receives just under $530m a year, the vast majority of its resources are spent on contraception, testing for sexually transmitted diseases and infections, and cancer screenings, among other women’s health issues.
(6) Decisions may also be prompted by the need to restart oral contraception after a break as part of planned parenthood.
(7) It is called the Constitution of the United States.” The anti-Planned Parenthood videos fail to make a case against abortion | Scott Lemieux Read more It’s not news that Rubio disagrees with reproductive freedom – he opposed Obama supreme court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of his opposition not only to Roe v Wade but to any constitutional right to privacy.
(8) Many societies in this world still view family planning or planned parenthood with suspicion; midwives, doctors, and other health professionals should cooperate in presenting family planning in its true form, and not as an isolated activity.
(9) The university has also canceled 10 contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates in four states that allowed nurses and doctors to train at Planned Parenthood clinics for academic credit, ending a 26-year relationship .
(10) The Freedom Caucus, a group of Tea Party conservatives, have come to loathe Boehner for working too closely with House Democrats and the White House to pass bills – including last week’s continuing resolution to fund the government – despite their inclusion of provisions hated by the right, such as funding for Planned Parenthood and Obamacare.
(11) Family background is highly associated with early entry into marriage for whites of both genders and female Hispanics and also with early entry into parenthood for all groups except black males.
(12) The unit is housed in Planned Parenthood's Manhattan headquarters.
(13) Raegan Carter, with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, has described Jindal’s decision as political grandstanding and called Jindal’s action against clinics illegal.
(14) In November 2015, a gunman killed three people and injured nine in a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs.
(15) The purpose of this study, which interviewed 356 couples of childbearing age in the Lyon region of France, was to analyze the different attitudes of men and women towards parenthood, and to identify the social and personal characteristics which may modify these attitudes.
(16) With Planned Parenthood poised to take center stage in the spending bill fight, women’s groups have warned that threatening to defund the organization is a “losing strategy” that will have repercussions come election day.
(17) If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions,” Pence told Politico in 2011.
(18) Noticeably absent from the hearing, however, is Planned Parenthood itself.
(19) Planned Parenthood receives about $500m per year in government funding, mostly through Medicaid and grants, and none of which can be used to provide abortion services.
(20) Results were generally consistent with stable partnerships and family formation exerting a moderating influence on drinking since marriage and parenthood were most prevalent among groups reducing consumption or maintaining the lighter drinking of their teens.