For years and years, it was the kind of business in which mothers and fathers and children and grandchildren would all work together.
Fathers matter, and marriage helps to connect fathers to mothers and children.
But all of us have a stake in forging stronger bonds between fathers and their children.
In a second part of the study, the researchers collected T-shirts worn by fathers and their children while sleeping.
To be sure, the purpose of our work is about a focus on fathers and mothers and children that we believe is an essential component of all family strengthening efforts.
Traditional marriage laws may support legitimate goals like promoting intact, reasonably stable wedlock between mothers and fathers for children, or simply stem from a desire to not experiment with a core unit of civil society.
Mothers and children stand to benefit when fathers are actively engaged in the material and social support of their children.
More than 30 million men and women and children, mothers and fathers, won't be worried about what might happen to them if they get sick.
For the fathers -- and mothers -- who have lost their children, the children who have lost their fathers and for those of us like Morgan and I who are fortunate to still have our sons in our lives, this would be a powerful gesture of goodwill on his road to making amends.
We saw mothers and fathers carrying their children on their shoulders to show them what true freedom might look like.
It's essential for both mothers and fathers to give children a vocabulary of feelings, said Dawn Huebner, a psychologist in Exeter, New Hampshire, who sees children ages 6 to 12.
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There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for college.
There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.
Mothers and fathers resume care for children returning home as wounded warriors.
And I think that bitterness sometimes turns into jealousy, it gets in the way of our relationship with our child and it certainly gets in the way of the relationship between our children and their father or fathers.
Mothers who abandon their children tend to be judged far more harshly by society, and by their children, than fathers who do the same -- though not because of outcome.
During interviews conducted individually with mothers and fathers, Dr Alvergne and her team asked questions about how many hours a day fathers spent with their children.
Nearly 2000 fathers, father-figures and their children participated in the event.
So we started where God started, with black men, to get black men to be responsible husbands and fathers and builders of community and protectors and providers for our women and children.
This year, with the help of fellow assistant principal Mark Koller, we joined all the LISD Watch DOGS with the Texas Stars Triple-A hockey team to form a partnership in order to provide a special night for fathers and father-figures with their children.
Polygamy is understood to often be harmful to women and children: Women, for example, are in many cases treated unequally, and children suffer from distant fathers.
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We believe this will encourage others, especially women, to show the men and fathers in our lives and communities they are valued and a needed resource for women and children.
We owe it to them, our children, our mothers and our fathers to try and live up to those great expectations.
Also, there are often young mothers and fathers in the homes who may feel overwhelmed, our volunteers offer babysitting service and help play with the children to give the parents a break and some quiet time (as a mom, I can say that I imagine this is a huge help).
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They worked out the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger for each child, and compared it with those of 34 of the children's healthy siblings, 88 of their fathers, 88 of their mothers, and a number of unrelated controls that were matched for sex and age.
Since 1965, fathers have nearly tripled the time they spend with children and more than doubled the time they spend doing housework.
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When couples shop for baby products, they discover packaging and advertisements featuring mothers with children, not fathers with children or couples with children.
The women we engage overwhelmingly express the need for fathers to be involved emotionally and physically in the lives of children, not just financially.
The result, published in the latest edition of Animal Behaviour, is that children who looked and smelled like their fathers did indeed enjoy more paternal care than those who did not.
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