Sentences with phrase «father figure»

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What have you seen — or been part of — where men step up as father figures for children?

Have black husband great father figure for my child for when it comes to selecting.

The Day is a time to recognize fathers and father figures who have influenced a person's life.

There are clear class divides (predator priests often worked in low - income neighborhoods, targeting boys who needed father figures).

Again, a family systems approach might encourage mothers to find ways of facilitating the child's acceptance of a new father figure.

Their words speak loudly to the important role fathers and father figures play in the lives of children.

Maybe it has to do with praying to an imaginary father figure rather than figuring stuff out and fixing it.

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His basketball coaches played father figure roles to him.

Here's a case study of a 38 - year - old first time father figuring out his family's financial plan.

It may have taken a generation but I found the perfect father figure.

I have a head on my shoulders and believing in mystical father figures living somewhere in the sky doesn't really make sense to me.

But, research shows in point of fact that father figures do have positive and long - lasting impacts on their children just by engaging with them in affirmative and encouraging ways.

A girl whose father figure truly believes in her will have the confidence to overcome challenges and meet her goals.

The man can not handle dialogue to save his life, his ordinary father figure coming across as rather boring and dull.

In addition to time spent living with the family, marriage to the child's mother might be another indicator of the extent to which father figures are embedded in family life.

I don't want eternal life and I don't need a supernatural father figure to protect me.

In the same way, even kids like yours, who do have an involved father, can still benefit from the experiences and insights of a caring father figure.

But from the moment they step into the world beyond their doorstep, their need for a father or father figure grows exponentially.

Compared to children living with a biological father, children are less likely to perceive a non - biological father figure as being supportive.

Looking for a husband / father figure man for the boys.

Too many sons, and daughters too, are growing up today without a dad or true father figure.

But he felt the lack of a consistent father figure in his life when he and his wife became the parents of a new baby.

What a girl needs is a loving, predictable father figure — whether married to her mother, single, or divorced.

This is my new normal, and it's happening all across our great country, from shore to shore as we fathers and father figures sign up, show up and become involved.

There's no cookie - cutter father figure, nor is there a parent handbook.

They're both - you know, there's these competing father figures.

It's the look of a morally complex father figure when a child asks him why other kids call him a bad word.

Both «recent» and «established» father figures appeared to carry a similar level of risk.

We are starting to see a lot of fathers and father figures in games, but not a lot of mums.

Id like to have a partner and father figure for my kids.

It must be very weird to live in a world where everything is either a trick by a supernatural monster or a magical blessing by a supernatural father figure.

Last year's cinematic landscape was littered with father figures who are inept and adrift.»

Further study of non-biological father figures» needs is required in order to further our understanding of how best to support them.

Eventually, though, Vincent wins you over, with Murray adding to his repertoire of surrogate father figures that includes Meatballs and Rushmore.

In «The Road Chip,» the musical career of the «Munks — mischievous Alvin (voiced by Justin Long), studious Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler) and chubby Theodore (Jesse McCartney)-- has been put on hold by father figure Dave (Jason Lee), who wants them to live a more «normal» kids» life.

The comedy Father Figures made a laughable $ 5.5 million in its first week of release, which was good enough for a tie Darkest Hour, but was more than likely disappointing for a film the studio probably expected better results from as it looks to disappear from the top ten next week altogether.

Dad's the way to love and roll Father's Day — usually the third Sunday of June — is an occasion for celebrating fatherhood and the influence of fathers and father figures on society.

Just hinduism, speculation, Founding fathers figured out truth behind hinduism, corruption of truth called religions and adapted truth absolute God as their way, it was not just the bickering of hindu gentile ignorant slave Christians, but a desire to dump hinduism, racism as foundation of America.

In most cases this partner was the child's biological father (n = 2411), with a minority of children (n = 182) having a non-biological resident father figure.

However, even for established father figures, supportiveness appears lower than for children with a resident biological father.

We see his life in episodes, as Mason juggles three different fathers (and a host of other father figures) over the course of his childhood.

Without father figures, young men in his constituency have no decent role models to aspire to.

The Amityville Horror was about a family learning to accept a new father figure into their unit.

His scenes in the initial levels of the game cast him as a welcoming father figure towards Mitchell and the player, following the loss of his own son.