Sentences with phrase «father of a larger family»

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Oddo's father adopted the same mentality for the family business — each of his three sons needed their own company as part of the larger business.

Family patriarch Albert Latner died in 2015 at the age of 88, having built his father - in - law's construction business into one of Toronto's largest real estate developers.

What it's about: A governess of a large Austrian family struggles whether to become a nun, falls in love with the family's widowed father, and flees the Nazis.

In addition, Gordon and his father Jack Diamond also formed the Diamond Foundation, one of Canada's largest private family foundations, which has benefitted countless Vancouver residents and British Columbians over the past three decades.

In addition, Gordon and his father Jack also formed the Diamond Foundation, one of Canada's largest private family foundations, which has benefitted countless Vancouver residents and British Columbians over the past three decades.

It also overlooks the large number of dual - income families in which the mother or father stays home during some of the preschool years.

as a «social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line; broadly: control by men of a disproportionately large share of power.»

Plato, he said, would have us believe that there is no need «for a natural base on which to form conventional ties; as though the love of one's nearest were not the principle of the love one owes the state, as though it were not by means of the small fatherland which is the family that the heart attaches itself to the large one; as though it were not the good son, the good husband, and the good father who makes the good citizen!»

My family is full of medical practi.tioners including my father who ran a medical school and my aunt who is a pharmaceutical bio-chemist, currently in charge of a large laboratory in North Carolina.

When making pancakes for a large family brunch such as Mother's Day, Father's Day or another festive occasion, you can set out a variety of pancake toppings.

On Friday, Brown was joined by a large entourage, which included members of his own family and that of Chris and Andy Tripp, the godparents whom he regards as a surrogate mother and father.

(Indeed, the largest share of stay - at - home fathers, 35 percent, is at home because of an illness or disability while 73 percent of mothers are home specifically to care for their home or family).

So many mothers, and sometimes fathers as well, lose a large amount of sleep when they have a new addition to their family.

13, 2015, among 1,807 U.S. parents with children younger than 18, also shows that in two - parent families, parenting and household responsibilities are shared more equally when both the mother and the father work full time than when the father is employed full time and the mother is employed part time or not employed.1 But even in households where both parents work full time, many say a large share of the day - to - day parenting responsibilities falls to mothers.

Large - scale studies reveal a number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as low levels of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardLarge - scale studies reveal a number of social disadvantages in young fathers» families, such as low levels of parental education, large family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardlarge family size, not being raised by both birth parents and financial hardship.

An Office of Family Assistance (OFA) funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs / Federal grantees, states, and the public at - large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.

Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.

Millions of fathers today — some by choice, others out of necessity — are taking on larger and more diverse roles in parenting and family life.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Dec. 02, 2014)-- WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), the National Center for Fathering's (NCF) largest program, made a donation of $ 1,215 to Fisher House Foundation in honor of Military Family Appreciation Month.

The researchers theorized that in divorced / separated families, a father — and how he behaved — was likely to have exerted a stronger influence on an older daughter than a younger daughter since older daughters systematically received larger «doses» of dad's behavior.

We were lucky, the fact that my father was a doctor coupled to the charity of the Stix family of St Louis, Missouri, who had given bond for a large number of professional jews, we did get a visa to come to the United States and arrived in New York in January 1939.

We were part of a much larger family: my father had 14 siblings, my mother 5.

I am a 66 years young widower, father of 5 all grown up and starting their own families and a hobby farmer currently living in Mittagong in the Southern Highlands near Sydney, Australia looking for a wife to start again with a new large family asap.

Despite Gordon's disastrous experience as a father (caused in large part by his obsession with money instead of family), the disgraced stockbroker wants to rebuild his relationship with his only remaining child.

Like the river, the «town» itself becomes a vital force as it tries to convince the father to sell the large parcel of land that has been in the family since 1789, meanwhile letting Adam know he is no longer welcome.

The World's Largest Porch Swing and Nurturing Talent The memory of her family's visits to the World's Largest Porch Swing in Hebron, Nebraska, sustains Mibs during the bumpy bus ride to Salina where her seriously injured father is hospitalized.

«When bad things happen in our family,» Jesse, an astute twelve - year - old boy from a large middle - class suburb of Los Angeles, recently told me, «my father gets blocked.

Other than a loan from my father - in - law (which I paid back in full some six months later), I wasn't helped by family members — but I did get a great deal of help from a large number of volunteers.

For example, a father or mother who is the primary income earner of the household that has a large life insurance policy gets the peace of mind that the family will be taken care of financially if he or she die unexpectedly.

Coming from a family focused on human medicine — his father worked in the medical department of an oil company and his mother was a nurse — Roussel's decision to become a large animal veterinarian came as a surprise.

The original building was soon augmented by the main house as the owner, David Arnot, was a prolific father and needed plenty of accommodation to house his large family.

The largest of the Family Islands Group and known as the father, Dunk Island is a stone's throw from the mainland.

Having shown a series of large - scale ink drawings that re-created photographs from her father's early childhood in her 2003 graduation exhibition at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Wåhlstrand continues to investigate other motifs from her family photograph albums.

When the museum opened in a large skylight room added to the family's nineteenth - century Georgian Revival home, it was known as the Phillips Memorial Art Gallery, in honor of Phillips's father and brother.

Each of the three artist - pairings in the Islands exhibition demonstrate differing approaches to collaborating, from the ongoing «A Moon For My Father» by White and Akbari, structured around an exchange of film «letters» between the two artists, to Matt Golden and Natsue Ikeda, who as Golden Family blur authorship within their art practice at large, and in their development of a fictional nomadic musician character further blur distinctions between storytelling and real - life.

Over the past 18 months, I have been the subject of intense speculation and public scrutiny, in large part because of the philanthropic investments of the Mercer Family Foundation and the political contributions made by my father and me.

If the father of a family is hurt so that he is unable to provide, there is a greater chance that he will receive a larger settlement.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which followed a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three - quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents), sheds light on the relationships of low - income, unmarried parents.11 The vast majority of unmarried fathers in the study indicated they were romantically involved with their child's mother at the time of the child's birth.

Fact: «While public sentiment has been in favor of nonresident father's involvement in family life, there is limited research evidence of whether their involvement yields positive benefits for children (King, 1994) and for the functioning of the biological family unit... most studies, particularly those based on large national databases, have not been able to detect a significant connection between the nonresident father's contact with his child and the child's well - being (Furstenberg et al., 1987; King, 1994).

CFRP also has a large body of work in the areas of father involvement, paternity establishment, and family instability.

Fact: «Relative to differences in parent - child interaction by family type, there are much larger differences by parents» gender, with many fathers minimally involved in their children's lives, regardless of the father's residential status (Parke & Sterns, 1993).

The lack of an effect of mother's age for this more restricted sample of families with both biological parents contrasts with the simple association found between mother's age and risk of poor father - child relationship for the larger sample of couple families (see section 4.4).

Our GUS finding for family socio - economic disadvantage (as indicated here by lower parental education) ties in with the negative effect of low family socio - economic status on the quality of both mothers» and fathers» relations with three year - old children in another large birth cohort, the UK Millennium Cohort Study (Malmberg & Flouri, 2011).

These factors include individual, family, larger system, and cultural influences... fathers» involvement with their children is a complex reality with multiple levels of influence.»

The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse is an Office of Family Assistance funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs / federal grantees, states and the public at - large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.

But experts said that while the findings did not establish the image of the wicked stepmother as true, they supported the conclusion that, for complex reasons, stepmothers do invest less in children than biological mothers do, with fathers, to a large extent, leaving to women the responsibility for the family's welfare.»

In this large, nationwide cohort of adolescents / young adults, we observed that adolescents / young adults from families with high family functioning and high - quality of mother - and father - adolescent relationships were less likely to have overweight or obesity and less likely to engage in unhealthful weight - related behaviors, although the pattern of these associations differed by sex.

In this large prospective study of UK two - parent families, two measures of father involvement (positive parenting beliefs at age 9 months and frequency of creative play at age 5 years) were associated with lower risk of subsequent behaviour problems, assessed using the SDQ total difficulties scale, in both boys and girls.