Sentences with phrase «more of a father figure»

Manchester City midfielder James Milner says having a baby has changed him and that he wants to become more of a father figure to his teammates in the dressing room as a result.

• Frank Langella as Sen. Richard Russell, an old - school, anti-reform Southerner who was more of a father figure to LBJ than LBJ's own father.

In many ways, the robot becomes more of a father figure to Will than John.

Not exact matches

In 1995, when Father Bernard McCoy moved in to the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in rural Sparta, Wis., he had much more to do than pray for nearly five hours a day: He needed to figure out how to earn enough money to keep the abbey going.

When Kyle Kashuv, one of the more prominent figures in the ongoing debate about what to do to reduce high school mass shootings, went to a shooting range with his father last Friday, the first thing he did was post some pictures and some pro-Second Amendment comments on Twitter.

He was a more impressive figure than our own Founding Fathers in at least three respects: He had been a slave for most of his life; he was a famously devout Christian; and his accomplishment remains unmatched to this day, for the Haitian Revolution is still the only successful slave revolt in history.

Among converts to Orthodoxy, for instance, as well as among many cradle Orthodox of a particularly rigorist kind, Dostoevsky is especially honored for having held firmly to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and having introduced the greater world to the figure of Father Zosima, from whom all the light of Eastern Christian contemplative spirituality shines out; and, more generally, among Christians of many confessions, Dostoevsky is revered as a prophet, the great Christian anti-Nietzsche, the voice of ancient Christian truth crying out in the spiritual desert of the modern West.

Even when the two sets of scripture speak of the same figure — such as Abraham, supposedly the common father of all three traditions — they tell some different stories and draw markedly different lessons, and this makes the term «Abrahamic religions» more problematic than at first seems the case.

but i also think another manager younger more dynamic could inspire the whole team to do better, i truly believe we have a really good talent in our team and we are not getting the best out of them, i rate AW of being a good manager outside the game where his the father figure to a bunch of almost young kids with fame and wealth is commendable but on the field his like their mother

This is important because it helps create a situation where dads (by which we mean the full diversity of men with a significant caring role in children's lives, including biological and other fathers and father - figures), as well as mums (in a similarly diverse sense), feel comfortable and valued — in the context of a culture which still privileges women as more naturally suited to caring, and more important as parents (and by extension, less important in other contexts, eg the workplace).

In our report we identify promising approaches from existing datasets, and set out recommendations that could help researchers study types of father and father - figure more effectively in future.

More than half of fathers were present for at least one visit during pregnancy and toddlerhood, a figure that rose to 75 % in infancy.

With Father's Day on the horizon, Gillette is putting the spotlight back on father figures around the world by encouraging guys to turn to the better source of wisdom, and Go Ask Dad this Father's Day, and every day; because taking a moment to seek out his advice will mean a lot more to him — and to you — than you might reFather's Day on the horizon, Gillette is putting the spotlight back on father figures around the world by encouraging guys to turn to the better source of wisdom, and Go Ask Dad this Father's Day, and every day; because taking a moment to seek out his advice will mean a lot more to him — and to you — than you might refather figures around the world by encouraging guys to turn to the better source of wisdom, and Go Ask Dad this Father's Day, and every day; because taking a moment to seek out his advice will mean a lot more to him — and to you — than you might reFather's Day, and every day; because taking a moment to seek out his advice will mean a lot more to him — and to you — than you might realize.

Once he got a little bit older to figure out how could I continue to breastfeed a very busy male child when I had another child so again baby wearing definitely helped in those situations and now that I have my third child and I'm home schooling and everything the support of my sons father he is super supportive, he is like «ok well while you are nursing I will talk to the children for a minute» or you know, I'll tie him on and he will nurse while I'm teaching my elder two children so the more children I have the more complicated it becomes.

Over the past decade, the idea of a gay man choosing to be a father seems to have progressed from somewhat of a curiosity into a more familiar scenario, as concepts about family and parenting skills evolve.These days, there are a number of resources and a body of parenting advice available to support gay dads, as well as some public figures making... read more

While it sounds like marrying her best friend would be a way out of single motherhood and into an arguably more stable life for her and her son, this mom doesn't want to give up her lifestyle and have to share her little boy with a new father figure.

This movie deals more with, duh, Bridget's pregnancy and figuring out who the father of her son is.

Whether it's the racists ways of a cop (Rampart) or the heartless nature of some military folks (The Messenger) or now the terrible father that is homeless Richard Gere (George) Moverman delivers complex figures that are more than just the darkness we initially notice.

Leigh comes to the part off of a current role on Showtime's Twin Peaks, while Weaving recently co-starred as a significantly more supportive father figure in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge.

(The extended cut of the film reveals a more complicated take on nostalgia and the film's father figure.)

Made between his cult western Johnny Guitar and his legendary Rebel Without a Cause, it in many ways anticipates the latter in the western mode of the former, though with a more conventional approach and an emphasis on the father figure over the symbolic son.

Oh, to be clear, I think it's a more than solid movie, with a host of fine performances (I think Glover and Haysbert make almost as much an impression as Common as his own twisted father figures).

But perhaps more important than forging youngsters into a competitive, top - flight band capable of winning national championships was the fact that Prof simultaneously served as a father figure to so many who were being raised without a male role model.

Juan becomes something of a father figure, but that might make this relationship sound more predictable than it is.

Where the film gauges more interest and earns its stripes as a coming - of - age picture are with the dynamics between Eric and his would - be authority figures, namely Rupert Friend's amiable psychoanalyst Oliver, Sian Breckin's cruel warden and Ben Medelsohn on typical terrifying form as head - con Neville who also transpires to be Eric's estranged father.

It's one thing to go into the backstory of how and why a typically bright and cheery fairy can be horribly hardened by heartbreak at the hands of the duplicitous love of her life (the king / Aurora's father, played as an adult by Sharlto Copley), but it's quite another to completely softpedal any sinister sentiment, which is more or less what occurs as Maleficent warms up to Aurora as she grows up into a perky and pure hearted teen (Elle Fanning, sleepwalking when not sleeping) who believes the mysterious, ever - lurking figure to be her fairy godmother.

The topic of «Papa Was A Rolling Stone» is more than a classic tune from the legendary Motown musical act The Temptations — it also happens to be the breezy theme behind the clunky comedy, Father Figures.

Instead, Schultz is the more compassionate of the two, cleaning up PR disasters left by Lake's rages and tolerating his absentminded father figure's angry insistence that he really does know the location of their hotel.

And Heigl's reservations in the second half of the film are understandable, sometimes a symptom of hormones, but more often the doubt that she can turn this waste of space into a father figure in time.

Mark, used to living in the shadow of more gregarious sibling, seized on du Pont as a benevolent father figure and fellow outsider.

The twist is that Maleficent becomes more of a parental figure to the princess Aurora (Elle Fanning) than either her father or the creepy pixies.

Both are drawn to the head gangster of South Boston, played by Jack Nicholson (in a performance that starts restrained and becomes weirder and more «Jack» as the film's sense of paranoid hysteria increases), and both have legit cops as potential father figures: DiCaprio has the ideal good father in Martin Sheen, Damon has amoral (and hilarious) company man Alec Baldwin, in a less frightening variation on his great Glengarry Glen Ross performance.

Thirteen years had passed since his mother's murder, then three weeks since Gideon had found his father's small, black gun, and ten more days since he'd figured out a 2:00 a.m. train would carry him to the gray, square prison on the far side of the county.

After the deaths of her father and sister she developed a more visceral approach to her figures exposing veins and other organs to the view of the observer.

The loss of the father figure is a likely reason men are more affected.

The data reveal that, compared to fathers who attend the births of their children, absent fathers are three times more likely to have children with health complications as early as 3 months after the birth [Figure 1.]

More than three - quarters of fathers are present at the birth, and of these, 89 percent sign the AOP [Figure 1].

And then wonder more about what it is like when a child figures out that there are parents out there, their first mother and their first father, who are not part of their lives.

In this case the child can sense the depression and unhappiness of the mother because there is no father figure to be more influential than the mother.

Information was provided on various initiatives that have helped engage fathers and father figures, inspire children, reduce bullying, and generally improve the educational environment in order that men may become more involved in the lives of their children.

The study also has a limited focus on mothers» parenting of children up to the age of 5, and more work is required to establish wider applicability to the role of fathers or non-biological parent figures, or to the parenting of older children.

Various factors appear to compromise the development of supportive father - child relations among couple families, including a high level of family socio - economic disadvantage, adverse family events, an unsupportive partner relationship, a more disruptive or less cohesive family climate, and the presence of a non biological father figure rather than the biological father.

Our findings from multivariable models do not clearly show that residing in the household for more than two years or being married to the child's mother improves father figures» relations with children, and we were unable to explore the effects of any children from a previous relationship.

There is a significant association between mother's age and father - child relationship quality, in that children with younger mothers (under 40 years at the child aged 10 interview and therefore under 29 at the time of the child's birth) are more likely to have a poor father - child relationship (Figure 4 - A).

However, the proportions of children having an excellent relationship in the two types of family are more similar (26 % for biological father, 22 % for father figure).

Families with a non-biological father figure were also more likely to be disadvantaged: for example, 42 % were in the lowest quintile of household income (< # 13,450 p.a., equivalised to take account of household size and composition), compared to 15 % of couple families with a biological father.

This difference may be explained by the fact that families where there is a mother under 29 years are much more likely to contain a non-biological father figure by the time the child is ten years old (39 % did so, compared to 10 % of the total sample).

Other factors, such as the presence of a father figure rather than the biological father, partner supportiveness and family climate, seem to affect father - child relationships more than mother - child relationships.

Although this graph suggests that a more recent father figure carries more risk of a poor father - child relationship compared to an establised father figure, the difference between established and recent father figures is not statistically significant (see section 3.3 for definitions of «established» and «recent»).

Figure 4 - H also reminds us (see 3.3) that if the family contains a father figure, there is more risk of a poor - father child relationship than if the biological father is prFigure 4 - H also reminds us (see 3.3) that if the family contains a father figure, there is more risk of a poor - father child relationship than if the biological father is prfigure, there is more risk of a poor - father child relationship than if the biological father is present.