Sentences with phrase «father left a message»

The same day I received the letter, my father left a message on my answering machine, ordering me to burn it.

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«What actually happens now is that while the mother's responsibilities are reinforced at every opportunity, the first message many fathers get after the birth is: «leave this place now!»

The continuing father involvement deficit across developed countries reflects three key factors: the gender pay gap between men and women which worsens when people become parents; unequal entitlements to parenting leave during the first year when long - term parenting patterns and core competencies are established; mother - focussed services that can easily marginalise fathers and send a message that dads don't really matter.

Factor in the cultural message that has left many fathers feeling deeply ambivalent about their role as a parent and the growing physical separation due to divorce, and what becomes clear is that we are facing a daunting challenge.

Using collective language like, «We feel betrayed» or «Your mother / father has left us» sends a subtle yet strong message that kids aren't allowed to be emotionally independent.

He may have been the nutcase who left an obscene message for Eliot Spitzer's father.

In other words, she thinks that her father - through the leaves of the tree - can send her messages from his next life and have extended chats with her and anyone else willing to believe in such otherworldly existence.

The script sets up the idea that Hugo's father may have left him a message stuck in a broken machine called an automaton.

Emmy - nominated actress says that her father sometimes leaves uncomfortable voicemail messages after watching some of her sexual encounters on the show

Finding a stash of money left behind by his mother, he decides to search for his father, because of a mysterious message left on a bookmark.

She's convinced herself that her absent father, who's spent some time in jail, will be coming back for her — even though she's left him several messages with no response.

It's a message that Ella will need when her father remarries and she's left living in an attic under the watchful eye of her wicked stepmother (a wonderfully scornful Cate Blanchett) and her obnoxious stepsisters (Sophie McShera and Holliday Grainger).

He has left a strange message for his son Talcott, a professor of law at a great university, entrusting him with «the arrangements» — a mysterious puzzle that only Tal can unlock, and only by unearthing the ambiguities of his father's past.

I think that if we were sending the message that men should also take a paternity leave when their children are born, we know from research that it helps promote bonding when fathers stay home more with their babies when they're first born.

Some of the charges initiated after the father reported that the woman was calling him and leaving him messages when there was a no - contact order in place.