father surrogate

At first, his duties were limited to serving as a father surrogate to the campers.

Even if Lee's 89-year-old mentor and father surrogate was forced into tailoring by racism, and even if the Chinamen's cemetery in Montreal was "the place to bury the people no one really wanted around", the focus of this book is not racism.

He stands to the individual members of the group of believers in the relation of a kind elder brother; he is their father surrogate.

Q. But didn't you become a father surrogate to the children she had adopted with Andre Previn?

The child spent the rest of his short life looking for a father surrogate.