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Parenthood   Listen
noun
Parenthood  n.  The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.






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"Parenthood" Quotes from Famous Books



... known. Not a sign nor an accent of emotion, nothing, while she was describing the suicide of her first husband—she did not even seem to imagine that she had a crime on her conscience. She remained pitiless, and yet, a moment ago, when she was commiserating him because of his fictitious parenthood, he had thought she was trembling. "After all, perhaps she is acting a ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... most vital step for the protection of the girls who walk in this path of pitfalls is to arouse the sleeping watchmen who are, by reason of their parenthood, responsible for the safekeeping of their daughters. This is why the "White Slave" articles by Hon. Edwin W. Sims and others, which have been published in the Woman's World, have done great good. They have stirred to a sense of alarm thousands of ...
— Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - War on the White Slave Trade • Various

... neither would have complained if fate had given them half-a-dozen healthy mouths to feed, as many wriggling bodies to clothe, and all the splendid worries that go with colic, croup, measles, mumps, broken arms and all the other ailments, peculiar, not so much to childhood as they are paramount to parenthood. ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon



Words linked to "Parenthood" :   adulthood



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