All around us we see the effects of poor or absent parenting negatively affecting society.
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Much of the time Roger looks either haunted or absent, not a black hole but a gray one.
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In President Obama's and Romney's cases, fathers -- present or absent -- are a large part of that cloth.
The team found that the genetic signatures of people from the Early Neolithic period were either rare or absent from modern populations.
Some of the most compelling arguments for free trade have been only modestly summoned or absent from the discussion for too long.
Fantasies are a way of rewriting childhood history, sometimes to wreak revenge on abusive or absent adults, sometimes to sanitise memories of them.
The twin rule of pathology states that any heritable disease will be more concordant (that is, more likely to be jointly present or absent) in identical twins than in non-identical twins and, in turn, will be more concordant in non-identical twins than in non-siblings.
At first, people kept phoning, to make sure that Nita was not too depressed, not too lonely, not eating too little or drinking too much. (She had been such a diligent wine drinker that many forgot that she was now forbidden to drink at all.) She held them off, without sounding nobly grief-stricken or unnaturally cheerful or absent-minded or confused.
The published results take account of all pupils, including those with special educational needs or who were absent or unable to do the tests.
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As fathers, these men were either failures at home or simply absent altogether.
Also, Indian stars are the league's biggest draw, and most of them have been performing indifferently or are absent in the ongoing edition.
Liberals have long complained that such religious courts are biased, with women finding it hard to win a divorce from an absent or abusive husband.
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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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"A comprehensive approach is absolutely essential because if any one of the components is absent or weak and ineffective, the entire accountability system begins to collapse, " Walker said.
Today, such institutions are either absent or reeling.
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Weliky says that women who experienced absent or distant fathers may continue to seek approval from men or have lower levels of confidence later in life, which affects their ability to assert themselves in the office.
Fozzie is amply served with a B-story in both episodes, but with Bobo the bear also getting a storyline, fans of less represented classics like Gonzo or the entirely absent Rowlf will surely find the early going excessively ursine.
As the FGV's Marcelo Neri points out, the programme shows the state in a new and better light in favelas: as a provider of benefits in places where it has either been absent or present only in the form of brutal police squads.
The "Absent or unable to access the test" figures alongside refer to those who were not there to take the test for whatever reason, and to the few pupils who were not able to take part, usually because they had certain special educational needs.
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The unfortunate truth is that many families have absent parents or individuals incapable of providing sound guidance.
"It's a curriculum in which the learner is completely absent, or just a passive consumer of information or knowledge, " he said.
If the former is absent, or sick, or out of town, the junior is supposed to perform the mandatory daily prayers.
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With Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke or Mike Hussey all absent, Australia stand-in captain Brad Haddin won the toss and elected to bat at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
And the article acknowledges that changes like lower mandated hours are part of an attempt to reduce turnover, so perhaps absent regulatory or advocate pressures firms would be limiting hours anyway.
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It has 6, 500 now and needs only 2, 000, says Merrill Lynch. (That's assuming it matches the 1, 000 annual sales per dealership of Toyota, Nissan or Honda.) Absent a bankruptcy, getting rid of dealers is tricky because they're protected by state franchise laws.
Others penalize students who are caught tweeting or texting by marking them absent for the day.
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But the basic elements of vodka, gin, bitters, aperitif wine and citrus peel all come together, absent any shaking or even stirring.
The CBO predicted that, absent tax cuts or spending increases, the federal budget would remain in surplus throughout the decade.
Their behavior cannot simply be induced by changes in the money supply or in interest rates, absent those desirable opportunities.
We further expect that liquidity could be constrained in 2013 absent a turnaround or substantial asset sales to fund operating losses.
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