sire

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Breeds & breeding
American bully
beget
breeder
breeding
breeding ground
brood mare
father
full-blooded
heritage
heritage breed
inbred
overbreed
pedigree
pedigreed
puppy farm
puppy mill
sire
teaser
thoroughbred
well bred

Examples of fathering

fathering

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Only one comparison (in men) indicated a significantly greater effect for fathering.
Conversely, highly negative infants appear to become less inhibited when they experience limited positive and more negative fathering.
Both the range and the depth of their fathering practices made them highly involved fathers.
These consequences may include being stigmatized in their community and alienating a long-term mate who contributes fathering and other valued resources to the family.
I wanted its intimacy, a kind of fathering to come ' ' (285-86).
No comparisons showed a greater effect of fathering.
This makes it possible to interpret the nature of fathering practices in this sample as rather traditional.
For women fertility was defined as having one or more live births and for men fathering a child.
This can mean everything and nothing, which is why it is not listed as a separate dimension of fathering.
Once again order of entry of positive and negative fathering did not substantially affect the findings.
While rather different, all these uses of 'being there' share the idea of commitment to fathering.
Recall that these fathering data were gathered at only 6 of the 10 research sites at when children were 6 and 36 months, but at all sites at 54 months.
It was not possible to elicit systematic evidence as to the influences on fathering or, more importantly still, their relationship one to the other, from these interviews.
Gornick refreshingly asks if it is gender inequality within families, and the assumption of gender divisions in care, that are the real problem in undermining partnering and fathering.
The literature on 'father involvement' has increasingly focused on developing measures of 'positive' involvement, that is, fathering practices likely to promote the development of the child.
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