Crossword clues for fatherhood
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fatherhood \Fa"ther*hood\, n. The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., faderhade; see father (n.) + -hood.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being a father.
WordNet
n. the kinship relation between an offspring and the father [syn: paternity]
God when considered as the first person in the Trinity; "hear our prayers, Heavenly Father" [syn: Father, Father-God]
the status of a religious leader
the status of a father
Wikipedia
Fatherhood is an American animated television series revolving around the Bindlebeep family and various happenings, inspired by the book of the same name by Bill Cosby. This was Nick at Nite's first original animated series. It has aired on Nick at Nite and Nickelodeon. It was canceled in 2005.
Fatherhood may mean:
- being a father, a male parent of a child
- Fatherhood (album), a 1995 album by the British musician Stephen Jones
- Fatherhood (book), a 1986 bestselling book by Bill Cosby
- Fatherhood (TV series), a United States animated television series
- Father Hood, a 1993 comedy film starring Patrick Swayze
- Snoop Dogg's Father Hood, a 2007 reality show starring rapper Snoop Dogg
Fatherhood is a bestselling 1986 book attributed to Bill Cosby and published by Doubleday & Company, Inc. The book was ghostwritten by humorist Ralph Schoenstein.
Fatherhood was the third of five albums of home-made recordings, released by Stephen Jones under the name Baby Bird in 1995. The album includes a version of the song " Goodnight", which was subsequently released as the first single by Jones' band Babybird (written as one word).
It was originally a limited edition release, but is now available as part of the 2002 CD box set The Original Lo-Fi.
Usage examples of "fatherhood".
But directly we observe, under the microscope, the facts of development, we discover that each parent contributes an exactly equal share to the making of the new individual, and all the ancient and modern ideas of the superior value of well-selected fatherhood fall to the ground.
Though finding, as we do, that the little boy enjoys playing with his dolls as his sister does, we refrain from buying dolls for him, and may indeed, underestimating the importance of human fatherhood, declare that dolls are beneath the dignity of a boy though good enough for his sister.
Eton will be education as for fatherhood, yet the ideal of education as for motherhood may yet triumph wherever girls are taught within even a few years to come.
What we call, then, the greater fastidiousness of the female sex is a definite sex character, and has a definite racial value, raising the standard of fatherhood where it is allowed free play.
These natural causes of widowhood, as they may be called, are greatly aggravated by the destructive influence of alcohol upon fatherhood, as will be shown in the chapter dealing with alcohol and womanhood.
Often, as we have seen, there is no corresponding fatherhood, for the mother may be a widow, or unmarried and unable to find the father.
But where the corresponding fatherhood exists, we fly directly in the face of Nature, we deny the consistent teaching of evolution as the study of sub-human life reveals it to us, if we do not turn to the father and say, this is your act, for which you are responsible.
The time has come when fatherhood, whether within marriage or without it, must be reckoned a deliberate, provident, foreseen, all-important, responsible act, for which the father must always be held to account.
There can be no compromise, nothing but a fight to the finish, between the principle of endowing motherhood by making fatherhood less responsible, and the principle here fought for, of endowing motherhood by making fatherhood more responsible.
They simply practise responsible fatherhood, and the mothers and children are protected.
By nothing else will this arrest be so accelerated as by those very measures for making fatherhood more responsible for the care of motherhood, which are here advocated.
It is completely forgotten that, just as parenthood, both fatherhood and motherhood, demands more of the individual as we rise in the scale of animal evolution, so, within our own species, the same holds good.
The death of fathers: When a father dies, his fatherhood is returned to the All-Father, who is the sum of all dead fathers taken together.
The fatherhood is returned to the All-Father, first because that is where it belongs and second in order that it may be denied to you.
In the heady flush of expectant fatherhood, Eddie had lapped up those oily words, believing as only he could that everything was possible.