parentage

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parents & children
baby mama
babyhood
babymoon
bastard
brat
fraternal twin
guardianship
identical twin
illegitimacy
orphan
parent
parentage
parental
parentally
step-parent
the generation gap
triplet
tug of love
twin
without issueidiom

Examples of parenthood

parenthood
This paper explores the implications of human reproductive cloning for our notions of parenthood.
Parenthood seems to intensify the attachment relationship with one's parents, whereas prior to the birth of children the romantic partner plays the most important role.
More important than the information-giving provisions are the various elements of the proposals which encourage the active recognition of responsibilities of parenthood and marriage.
The other five volumes, about parenthood, adolescence, girlhood, boyhood, and infancy, serve as supplements and constraints on what the editors have chosen to emphasize here.
The book is a very thorough guide to the issues around lone parenthood and employment.
This argument has some intuitive force and yet it fails to explain fundamental intuitions concerning parenthood.
Civil registration provides a direct mechanism through which marriage is distinguished from cohabitation, through which parenthood is defined and by which human life is protected.
Finally, these findings may reflect differences in expectations, either conscious or unconscious, of parenthood as a result of earlier experiences of family life patterns.
A variety of other possible benefits are conditional in some measure on contemporary views about parenthood and biology.
Similarly, the childless respondents were more inclined to minimize the inconvenience of parenthood, but between the two groups the differences were not significant.
The strength of association between the risk of parenthood and the risk factor was assessed using the log-rank test.
The figure shows the observed rates of parenthood for males and females for each level of the risk factor score.
Such assortative pairing between similar individuals is likely to reinforce commonalities and give rise to similar life course outcomes, including an earlier onset of parenthood.
A major social and health problem, particularly in inner city areas, is pregnancy in women under 16 years, or even single parenthood.
First, to reduce the chance of early parenthood, which adversely affects the economic prospects of both men and (especially) women.
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