Sentences with phrase «daughters as a burden»

They have seen daughters as a burden and as only having value for breeding purposes or in higher circles for forging political alliances.

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Financial rules will change between now and then, but essentially I've already started planning so that my old age is as small a burden as possible on my daughter, and so — if she's doing that work — she has choices about how she wants to arrange things (and me).

I didn't want to burden my in - laws as they were having the time of their life and it was my mother - in - law's daughters» wedding shower after all.

As a result, the daughter cell does not inherit the defective proteins that burden the mother cell.

William Carlos Williams» short stories, collected as The Farmers» Daughters or The Doctor Stories, possess all of the economy and grace of that other great writing doctor, Anton Chekhov (and the stories don't labor, as Chekhov's must for most of us, under the burden of translation).

Indeed, this study demonstrates that daughters with more secure attachment bonds report lower levels of caregiver burden, as have other studies (Crispi et al. 1997).