Not exact matches
The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity
than some guy named jesus or his never
caring ignorant
father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).
Mar. 12, 2013 — A century old mystery as to why, for some animals, it's the
father rather
than the mother that takes
care of their young has been cracked by researchers at the University of Sheffield.
Matthew gives the saying in slightly different terms: «No man is worthy of me who
cares more for
father or mother
than for me; no man is worthy of me who
cares more for son or daughter; no man is worthy of me who does not take up his cross and walk in my footsteps.»
When one adds this to the role of «
father» as protector, guardian, and provider of the family and the life of the womb, it is easy to see the preference for
father as the proper anthropomorphism for the role of God to mankind in
care and love, rather
than for a mother figure.
Obviously I don't know what you give, I suspect it's more for a tax donation
than actual
care for the mother and
father.
Jesus told a story about the
Father seeing the sparrow fall to the ground, and that we should therefore be comforted that the
Father cares for us... because we are more important
than sparrows.
It's a similar but slightly different reality
than that of stay - at - home dads — the trail - blazing «feminist,
father, and husband who doesn't
care what the gender roles are,» is how Diane Sollee, director of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, sees them.
Where mothers work, more
than one
father in four takes emergency time of to
care for a sick child (Maume, 2008).
Low income
fathers»
caring responsibilities for their children are more substantial
than is generally known, and can prove a barrier to employment if they go unrecognized:
The fact that more
than half of
fathers want to make use of SPL shows how far we have come on the journey towards shared
care and shared careers.
Fathers who have participated in baby - care courses take on more care of their babies than fathers who ha
Fathers who have participated in baby -
care courses take on more
care of their babies
than fathers who ha
fathers who have not.
• Swedish couples are 30 % less likely to separate if the
father took more
than two weeks leave to
care for their first child (Olah, 2001).
• Swedish
fathers who took paternity leave in the late 1970s have had an 18 % lower risk of alcohol - related
care and / or death
than other
fathers and a 16 % overall reduced risk of early death (Mansdotter et al, 2008; Mansdotter et al, 2007).
In 36 per cent of dual earner families it is the
father, more
than any other individual, who
cares for children while the mother is at work.
It's true that more men are at home
caring for the kids
than ever before — there are about 2 million stay - at - home dads — but, and this is a big but, the largest number of stay - at - home
fathers, 35 percent, are at home because of illness or disability, according to the Pew Research Center, not by choice, versus 73 percent of stay - at - home mothers, who either are choosing to be at home (presumably with the blessing of their partner) or who have had to opt out for any number of reasons (the cost of child
care perhaps).
• If one parent is better - educated
than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more
care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a
father who was better educated
than their mother took longer -
than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)
Over two thirds of all new
fathers (70 %) say they would like to be more involved in the
care of the children
than they currently are.
• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think
fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more
than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that
fathers are as good as mothers at
caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more
than it values a child's relationship with its
father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children,
fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if
fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in hospital when their baby is born.
The early years period is also the time when
fathers, like mothers, are most child - focused: this is the period when parents of both sexes spend more time
caring for and interacting with their children
than they ever will again.
• Almost half (49 %) of all mums with children under one year old now work • Between 1975 — 1997, dads»
care of infants and young children increased 800 % • Dads now take on a quarter (25 %) of the family's childcare - related activities during the working week • 8 out of 10 working
fathers work atypical hours and as a result they lose more
than 15 hours per week with their children — more
than one month (32.5 days) each year.
Even the most «sorted» young
fathers will need some support to feel that they are really significant in their children's lives, given that
fathers» roles are less clearly socially scripted
than mothers», particularly in relation to intimate
care - giving where
fathers are generally perceived as optional extras.
The survey found almost universal desire among the
fathers to be involved in pregnancy and
care for their babies --(96 per cent attended the birth)-- yet more
than a third expressed dissatisfaction at being involved too little with the pregnancy.
Analysis of time use data shows that
fathers devote significantly less time
than mothers to child
care (an average of seven hours per week for
fathers, compared with 14 hours per week for mothers).
On average across the Australian population,
fathers spend more time at paid work
than mothers, who take on more
care and domestic responsibilities and the latest research showed that nearly half of
fathers worked more
than 44 hours a week.
Fathers now spend more time engaged in housework and child
care than they did half a century ago.
At - Home Dads — According to 2012 estimates, 189,000 married
fathers with children younger
than 15 have remained out of the labor force for at least one year primarily so they can
care for the family while their wife works outside the home.
Aka Pygmy men do more infant
care - giving
than fathers in any other known society, finds the report.
Similarly, while about six - in - ten mothers say they do more
than their partners when it comes to managing their children's schedules and activities (64 %) and taking
care of their children when they're sick (62 %), fewer
fathers agree that, in their households, mothers do more in each of these areas (53 % and 47 %, respectively).
And while 47 % of parents in two - parent households where both the mother and the
father work full time say they and their partner play about an equal role when it comes to taking
care of sick children, the same share says the mother does this more
than the
father.
Similarly, when it comes to taking
care of sick children, 55 % of married or cohabiting parents say the mother does more
than the
father; just 4 % say the
father does more, and 41 % say both parents share this equally.
•
Fathers are more involved in caring for babies than in previous generations, and both parents want fathers to be even more in
Fathers are more involved in
caring for babies
than in previous generations, and both parents want
fathers to be even more in
fathers to be even more involved.
Fathers today are expected to be involved in child
care and domestic responsibilities, sharing
care work with their partners rather
than simply helping out when needed.
Father - provided child
care has become more common
than in other periods experiencing similar economic conditions, the report notes.
The study shows that more of these young children are being
cared for by their
fathers than are in a child -
care center, in preschool or with another relative.
Dual - income
fathers spend about 11 hours more
than mothers in paid work per week, but mothers make up their hours by spending more time on average time in child
care and housework.
5Despite changing gender roles, many still perceive mothers as better equipped
than fathers to
care for children.
When it comes to
caring for a new baby, 53 % of Americans say that, breast - feeding aside, mothers do a better job
than fathers; only 1 % of Americans say
fathers do a better job
than mothers.
Mothers, instead, spend longer hours in child
care and housework
than fathers.
Overall,
fathers spend significantly more hours each week in paid work
than do mothers (40 hours vs. 23 hours, on average), while mothers» time in unpaid work (child
care and housework) is much longer
than that of
fathers (31 hours per week vs. 17 hours).
Although women continue to spend more hours providing childcare
than men do,
fathers spent about 2.5 hours in primary child -
care activities per week from 1965 to 1985, and that num - ber had grown to nearly 7 hours a week by 2000.
The
fathers of the control group were also offered a face - to - face 40 - minute training session about child
care, such as accident prevention and vaccination, but discussion was focused on the health benefits of breast milk rather
than the management of breastfeeding.
After his
father was murdered on Chicago's South Side and his mother was sent to prison, Derrius Quarles spent more
than 12 years in foster
care.
When looking at pictures of their children, these men also showed more activity in regions of the brain associated with empathy and motivation to
care for offspring
than men with bigger testes, which suggests they are more nurturing
fathers.
When biologists talk about male orangutans «realizing» that they have less to lose in mating
than females, or female scrub jays «calculating» exactly when to abandon their young to a
caring father, they're speaking metaphorically.
I am a
father of two great daughters.I love and cherish Kids.I am a wonderful,
caring individual who would like nothing better
than to find someone to be a partner too.
I've read more books
than I
care to share, listened to more podcasts
than I feel comfortable Rules For Dating My Daughter: The Modern
Father's Guide to Good Parenting [Mike Dawson] on.
Alyssa's grandmother Lucy (Katharine Ross) has been looking after her, but when the girl becomes more
than Lucy
cares to deal with, she sends Alyssa off to spend some time with her
father, Hawk (Adrian Dunbar).
His grizzled foster
father would like nothing more
than to ship the little [expletive] back to government
care.
John and Jason fail to hit it off, in part because John's no better at taking
care of his mother
than his
father is.
Yet we're supposed to
care about this hateful, hideous woman when the action shifts from the boat to a deserted island, where Amber and the main target of her vacuous venom, the yacht's first mate Giuseppe (Adriano Giannini, who more resembles an Italian version of Aidan Quinn
than his he does
father, Giancarlo — who played the role in the original), end up stranded.