A careful reading of the text reveals that most of the firstborn children in the sample were from single-parent homes in which the father was absent.

仔细阅读文本就会发现，样本中大多数头生子女都来自没有父亲的单亲家庭。

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On the train coming home that night, he sees an older man who has the distinguishing features of his absent father.

当天晚上搭地铁回家，他看到一位年长的男人，与不在他身边的父亲有着同样的鲜明特征。

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But if the father is cold, critical or absent, the daughter will tend to feel she's not very lovable or attractive.

但如果父亲是一个冷漠、喜欢挑剔或者心不在焉的人，女儿会感到自己不太可爱或者缺乏魅力。

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The other character that's mentioned in the poem is the boy's father, whose trees they are, the property owner, who also is absent.

这首诗里提到的其他人是他的爸爸，这些树就是他爸爸的，这些财产的拥有者，但也没有出现。

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And then there is often family dysfunction where too often the absent or incarcerated father is replaced by AAU coaches or other sports pimps of sorts.

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Uniquely among the states, Wisconsin has decided that lone mothers can keep all the support they receive from their child's father: this creates an incentive for mothers to help chase absent dads, and for the dads to pay up.

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Raised by his maternal grandparents, Dr Murray proved a hard-working student, eventually following his absent father, also a doctor, to the US - where he enrolled at Texas Southern University.

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