adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
family/parental expectations (=expectations that families or parents have for their children)
▪ Parental expectations for a first child tend to be quite high.
parental approval
▪ Students must first obtain parental approval.
parental authority
▪ The younger children are more likely to resist parental authority.
parental choice
▪ The aim is to extend parental choice in education.
parental consent (=from someone’s parents)
▪ Students may not be absent from school without parental consent.
parental leave (=time that a parent is allowed away from work to take care of a child)
▪ Parental leave is often unpaid.
parental leave
parental supervision
▪ The three boys often played outside without a lot of parental supervision.
parental/spiritual etc guidance
▪ Children need moral guidance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attitude
▪ Punitive methods persistently used against a background of rejecting, hostile parental attitudes lead, in the long term, to trouble.
▪ A child's response to death will vary not only in accordance with parental attitudes, but also in accordance with age.
▪ Most writers stress the importance of parental attitudes and parental activities.
authority
▪ Now children began to be weaned traumatically at an early age and subject to parental authority in childhood.
▪ Accompanying the greater caring was an intensification of parental authority.
care
▪ Now it must fend for itself, without parental care.
▪ Many cultures bias their legacies, parental care, sustenance, and favoritism toward sons at the expense of daughters.
▪ In the teenage years, parental care takes different forms.
▪ When parental care is inadequate, children should be placed with those who are best able to care for them.
▪ Men are to be exploited as providers of parental care, wealth, and genes.
▪ They act like huge and flightless cuckoos, as they stroll off and take no part in parental care.
▪ Step nine: Incubation and parental care Once the eggs are laid you must decide what to do with them.
choice
▪ As testing was done on the basis of parental choice these infants would not be screened.
▪ Under the concept of parental choice, schools will be held accountable for their students' performance.
▪ Discrimination and parental choice have come to be linked over a number of issues of current importance.
▪ This would make great sense, if tied to parental choice.
▪ He said the move increased parental choice and responded to complaints that the Government was discriminating against church schools.
▪ These will require, in addition to the factors described in the previous section, an allowance for the effect of increased parental choice.
▪ In education, extended parental choice has been a marvellous idea put into practice effectively.
▪ Somehow, schools must serve and respond to parental choices.
consent
▪ If any prizewinner is under 18, then parental consent must be obtained before the prize can be awarded.
▪ A bill that would have required parental consent for abortions died during the last session.
▪ A minor seeking an abortion was required to obtain parental consent.
▪ And the statutes indicated that you could use reasonable force in terms of restraint so long as there was parental consent.
▪ Entrants under 18 must supply parental consent. 4.
▪ The governor said he will urge the 1997 Legislature to require parental consent for abortions performed on minors.
▪ Informed parental consent was obtained before the study.
▪ It also mandated that no child could be hit without parental consent.
contribution
▪ Grants and parental contributions would be frozen at 1990 levels and loans would eventually form half of a student's maintenance award.
▪ Mature students and those who do not receive the parental contribution towards their grant have always been a problem.
control
▪ Yentob is being slightly disingenuous when demanding parental control.
▪ It targeted families by offering multiple email addresses and parental controls.
duty
▪ Full of self-importance, they take no part in parental duties.
▪ And they have to be safe for the performers, so that the nest-owners can survive to continue their parental duties.
guidance
▪ This parental guidance, however, can not always be provided.
▪ Neither does close attention and strict parental guidance.
home
▪ Her loving parental home, she knows, is only a temporary shelter.
▪ Children often long to escape the parental home and a parent may be severely critical of one particular son or daughter.
▪ Adam lived as far away from the parental home as was possible while still living in north London.
▪ The couple were deluged with rice and we all walked back to the bride's parental home afterwards.
▪ These factors include leaving parental home, marriage, fertility history, occupational change, retirement and sickness in old age.
▪ Janet Seligman's parental home was partly destroyed by a bomb, and Rita May's damaged.
investment
▪ Individuals have no economic rights as parents and no claim to the fruits of their parental investment.
▪ Social Security checks essentially come from the same place that babies come from: parental investment.
involvement
▪ Edis and Brabazon have suggested that parental involvement would be improved if parents were given more extensive rights.
▪ On the other hand, sending a child off to a series of lessons can not replace parental involvement.
▪ After the visit the head talked about the importance of parental involvement.
▪ There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image.
▪ They praised the relaxed atmosphere of the school and the emphasis placed on parental involvement and links with outside organisations.
▪ The ability of the school to enlist - and respond to - parental involvement, will be crucial.
▪ The concept of greater parental involvement was favourably received, and this involvement has increased in the years since Plowden.
▪ Some local authorities also encouraged parental involvement, by setting up consultative panels of parents.
leave
▪ The roles of both parents should be underwritten by proper parental leave and by universal and trusted childcare.
▪ In February 1990, Sacramento became the first county in California to offer paid parental leave to its employees.
▪ It prefers six weeks of state-funded parental leave.
▪ But is there no career penalty for men who choose parental leave?
▪ They have blocked directives on parental leave, on part-time workers and on maternity rights.
▪ How far can programs such as legally mandated parental leaves go toward meeting the individual needs of employers and families?
▪ It helped validate that parental leave was for both men and women and helped change the ratio of use.
▪ We may have contributed to the improvement in the 1980s by changing the name from maternity / paternity leave to parental leave.
love
▪ As I have said, he was a victim of circumstances, and of a strong concentration of parental love.
▪ No dividend of any imaginable percentage could make parenting profitable-it would just make parental love less expensive.
▪ Contrary to most political and economic models, parental love is generally recognized by biologists to be a very precious evolutionary asset.
▪ Economic considerations not withstanding, parental love will always be the most important asset in the family equation.
preference
▪ However, the 1980 Act requires parental preference to be granted unless one of the exceptions applies.
▪ Views may differ as to whether the religious leaning of the school or parental preference should prevail.
responsibility
▪ Once again men get the whip hand; they can exercise paternal rights or evade parental responsibilities-as they choose.
▪ Some fathers sincerely tried to become parents, sharing the home workload and parental responsibilities.
▪ This includes an unmarried father whether or not he has parental responsibility.
▪ This cuts to the heart of the problem: parental responsibility.
▪ The person named in the order will have parental responsibility for the child while the order is in force.
▪ Where the application is made on behalf of a parent or person with parental responsibility one form is sufficient.
▪ Richard and Mary will have party status in the proceedings as they each have parental responsibility for Jane.
▪ The new law does not use the terms custody and access but talks instead of parental responsibility, residence and contact.
role
▪ And what supports do some families need in carrying out their parental roles?
support
▪ The importance of parental support in effective transition can not be overestimated.
▪ Nor does parental support necessarily end with college graduation.
▪ All the indicators show that parental support helps young people come through solvent abuse quicker.
▪ Some students come from homes with a solid structure and parental support while other students are deprived.
▪ This dependence upon parental support, though necessary if schools are to survive, is socially divisive.
▪ Michael has the initiative and parental support needed for a two-year project, Morgan said.
▪ Perhaps Svend had generous parental support?
▪ The early phase of child-rearing is the time popularly associated with particular reliance upon parental support.
wish
▪ Policy props up parental wishes and desires, but does it acknowledge the effect on the deaf child?
▪ In reply, the Secretary of State said that parental wishes were paramount.
▪ The impossibility of guaranteeing adherence to parental wishes was acknowledged by the government in the provisions of the 1980 Education Act.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ parental responsibilities
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Critics of such parental activities argue that activist parents should be devoting their energies to lobbying legislatures to fund all schools adequately.
▪ Nor does parental support necessarily end with college graduation.
▪ The adult response of reason is swept away to reveal the small child cowering under parental wrath.
▪ The findings also suggest that recession and growing parental responsibility have resulted in fewer legalized women immigrants working outside the home.
▪ These will require, in addition to the factors described in the previous section, an allowance for the effect of increased parental choice.
▪ This cuts to the heart of the problem: parental responsibility.
▪ When advising an unmarried father it is important to note that party status is based on parental responsibility and not paternity.
▪ Yentob is being slightly disingenuous when demanding parental control.