Sentences with phrase «directions over her father»

It seemed she was forever pulled in opposing directions over her father.

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He thought of the more minor offenders, agonizing over the young ones especially, whose lives were spiraling, the ones who perhaps had things left in them to do, the ones who wouldn't likely ever murder, but had been unable to extricate themselves from these spirals, from their deranged fathers or their addled mothers, from the lack of any parents, from sexual abuse, from the vagaries of the foster care system, from the sorts of daily hurdles that Walters would never have dreamed about — the boys (and occasional girls) who were at that corner, who could turn, the ones whose direction wasn't already set.

Fact: «In contrast to the hypothesis that parental conflict might negatively interfere with nonresident father involvement, we found conflict over childrearing to be unrelated to father involvement (and the association was in the positive direction).»