Sentences with phrase «against the father figure»

Unfortunately one is treated like a spotty adolescent who's rebelling against the father figure's authority and dogma.

He will face off against the father figure he turned his back on so many years ago.

Not exact matches

Involvement of the father or a father figure has a significantly protective role against psychological problems in adolescents in families where parents have separated.

Connoisseurs of such will find its top - shelf qualities to include a Witness - like star - cross'd pas de deux; dead wives and sons; surrogate wives and sons; surrogate father figures fighting, Footloose - like, against oppressive cultures; a Fisher King rescue from insanity; and enough war - movie boilerplate to choke a War Horse.

Both of them lead difficult home lives, with Rosa struggling without a father figure in her life and Ginger's mother tied to the four walls of their home while her activist father fights against the Cold War.

And Rachael Harris» role as an exuberant mother plays nicely against Steve Zahn's laidback father figure.

Like a «typical» teenager, she rebels against her mother and most especially against Conroy whom she cannot / will not accept as a father figure in the place of her own birth father.

A marriage and family therapist employing SFT must first assess the family's interactions, figuring out the family's hierarchy, alliances within the family, such as a mother and son against a father, or siblings against another sibling or siblings.