father
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“Out of all these people, this one character just happens to pick them out in the dark,” said the 35-year-old father from Rochester, N.Y.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Beatty’s father worked in construction and held down multiple jobs to move the family to a white neighborhood with better schools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The father of the sisters, who were all living together in Greenford, London, formally identified their bodies.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
On Thursday, Noah's father Rhys Woods paid tribute to his son in a message shared on a community Facebook group.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
One day, one of the doctor’s daughters shares a secret with her father: Her friend, Joey Guerrero, has leprosy.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
In the UK, mothers can take up to 52 weeks of statutory maternity leave, 39 of which can be paid, while fathers can take up to two weeks of leave with statutory paternity pay.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
For white people who felt no enmity toward their fellow man, but who believed they were paying for the sins of their fathers, he was hope.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Parents raised sons to be husbands and fathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Before they could move from platonic friendship to a romantic relationship, and even build a life together, they had to know the truth about their fathers.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
All during his growing up, boys would brag to Ben about their fathers.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
He eventually fathered a child with a new wife, but that marriage collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It also delves into his personal life, including his difficult childhood and the 14 known children he has fathered with a series of women.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The safari park lost its previous bull Thorn, who fathered 29 calves over the course of his life, in 2024.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Some males fathered more calves than others, but the difference was not as extreme as researchers had expected.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
Uncle Sigmund married, fathered two daughters, and eventually owned a small grocery store until his retirement.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
In 2015 he admitted to fathering a child with his lover.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
There’s little airtight data on the fathering brain; cohorts are small; some results await replication while others confound analysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
As older whales became more common, they also became more successful at fathering calves than their younger competitors.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2026
Men, he also argued, should store sperm in their teens to avoid an increased possibility of fathering children with developmental difficulties.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
Back then, Cool Papa Byrd had been light on the fathering side.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
