Sentences with phrase «of an absentee father»

And it is our culture's affirmation of an absentee God the Father which is a key cause of the absentee fathers which the Institute for Public Policy Research's riot report recently highlighted.

His condemnation of absentee fathers is stark.

Adonis fights under the surname Johnson, preferring to earn his fame rather than riding the coattails of his absentee father.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the principal of Alvin's school suggested that the father and son get professional help, and referred them to John Cayton, a counselor with the Mental Research Institute of Palo Alto, a family - therapy clinic that does a brisk business in absentee - parent cases.

At worst he's the careless, absentee, father of a world in chaos.

But many of the other concerns distributism addressed were quite prophetic (take, for example, the central place accorded to families, and concerns about absentee fathers), or indeed perhaps too ahead of their time (the importance of sustainable agriculture and local connections to the land, now so in vogue).

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

I, on the other hand, am far more jaded, having spent done time as a latchkey kid to a twice - divorced mother and alcoholic father, both of whom have become pretty absentee in my life as an adult.

Compared with children with absentee fathers, children whose fathers were present and actively involved in their lives during early and middle childhood had fewer behavior problems and higher intellectual abilities as they grew older, even among children of lower socioeconomic status.

Involved Dads Give Kids an Edge Compared with children with absentee fathers, children whose fathers were present and actively involved in their lives during early and middle childhood had fewer behavior problems and higher intellectual abilities as they grew older, even among children of lower socioeconomic status.

The film begins with a quick flashback of young Tommy Popper getting ham radio dispatches from his world - traveling adventurer father (an absentee dad, in modern parlance).

Most notably, a scene where she watches her absentee musician father play in the local pub is a moving scene of a young woman looking towards her future by reconciling with her past — a triumphant display despite not a single word being spoken.

In the most oversold star billing since Marlon Brando became Superman's absentee father, Depardieu looms over, by my reckoning, less than a minute of screen time.

Boy (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama, set in New Zealand in 1984, about an 11 year - old Michael Jackson fan (James Rolleston) who belatedly bonds with his absentee father (Taika Waititi) when the Prodigal hoodlum returns to town to unearth a buried treasure.

Garmadon's villainy extends beyond his island - conquering desires: He's also a deadbeat dad, an absentee father whose egotism and narcissism has left him incapable of the whole fatherhood thing.

But privately, the thought of his own misconduct haunts him, as does the knowledge that he's rendered Glanton an absentee father.

Ed's absentee father comes calling in the person of DennisHopper, and his mother and step - dad are played by Sally Kirkland and MartinLandau.

It's what his father did, because screenwriter Derek Connolly knows that any movie in which a kid befriends a fantastical creature must contain an absentee parent of some sort.

M.V.P.: Among a wondrous cast, including J. Smith Cameron as Lisa's mother, John Gallagher Jr. as her hapless prospective beau, Kieran Culkin as a manipulative, callous rival, Rosemarie De Witt as the prickly, paranoid wife of Mark Ruffalo's character, Stephen Adly Guirgis as a long - suffering cop, Michael Ealy as a smart - as - a-whip attorney and Lonergan himself as Lisa's hen - pecked absentee father, it's the great Allison Janney (also the best thing in «The Help «-RRB- who lingers in a one - scene cameo as the victim of the bus accident which sets the plot in motion.

Sutter is a mess with an absentee father whom he hasn't seen since he was a child and a mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) whom he resents for pushing his father away, despite her story of what happened between them.

When their «Sound of Music» — loving mother is institutionalized — broken down by a gaggle of daughters and an absentee father — the Moochmore girls are shocked out of a navel - gazing obsession with their allegedly fragile mental health by the arrival of the tough, big - eyed Shaz.

Deniers remind me of a dirtbag absentee father working on making his fifth baby mama because of all the money he saved not supporting the first four.

The days of the father receiving every other weekend and the mother receiving the majority timesharing are typically over, unless one party has been an absentee parent, has drug or alcohol issues, or there is a documented pattern of abuse.

Of course, perhaps it was for the best that the children be taken away from their mentally ill mother and absentee father.

My wife and her two siblings had an absentee father who recently died of cancer.

As I have mentioned on Science of Relationships before, the idea that absentee fathers or dominant mothers are responsible for turning their children gay is simply not true and there is growing evidence in favor of a biological basis for homosexuality (see here).