In the short story entitled "They"re not Coming Back" the mother, named Claudette, is a single parent of two daughters. One day when the children arrived back from their visit to their father's place, the elder daughter tells her mother that she wants to go and live with her father. When the mother hears this she is struck with grief and cannot understand why her daughter would make such a decision. ... Seeing her daughter, Claudette's mother is able to offer little to no comfort to her. ... The irony of the story is manifested at the end when Claudette's mother tells her da...

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Kim Barnes" In the Wilderness; Coming of Age in Unknown Country delved into her childhood and adolescence as a logger's daughter in northern Idaho. In Bloodlines; Odyssey of a Native Daughter, Janet Campbell Hale utilized short stories to chronicle various stages of her life as the daughter of a Coeur d" Alene. ... In "Daughter of Winter," Hale described her function within her native family. ... Hale's mother frequently told her stories of her father's drinking and abuse but Janet believed that her father did not fit the description her mother fed her: "My father, the man I...

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She might began to withhold her child from the father, refusing visitation, which strains the child /father bond. Sometimes this withdrawal of child/father bond comes from the father because he does not feel ready nor obligated to be present. ... My daughter's father and I did not have a healthy relationship, so I ended it before I even found out I was pregnant. ... Just recently my daughters father contacted me and has seen my daughter twice. ... It also shows their kids and the kids fathers. ...

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The youngest daughter Caroline shows a similar example of having too much ambition. ... Instead she puts her father out of her life because she wants only to satisfy her own needs. ... After the possible loss of the farm, he states, "I was working around your father! ... Similar to Pete, Rose blames most of their problems on her father's abuse. ... Rose is willing to hurt her father because he abused her as a child. ...

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Boys who live with only their fathers do not have the same problems as boys who have no father figure. ... Does this mean that a father and a father alone is sufficient to raise a young boy but any family structure not involving a father falls short, regardless of how loving and secure it may seem? ... For example, if the father has remarried after divorce or if a young boy lives with step parents of either sex, than he is just as likely to act up as a boy without any father. ... Are there any differences between a child who sees his father occasionally and a child who never sees his father...

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Deborah's father was a seaman who left the family in search for adventure, and had died in a shipwreck. ... Also Bathsheba, Deborah's Grandmother told her many stories of female heroism. "Deborah's grandmother, the spirited Bathsheba, was very close to her daughter Deborah, often visited her grandchildren in Plympton. ... There were some stories that told of Deborah going and disappearing for days on end, supposedly staying with near by Indian tribes. ... Although these stories were stated many times it unsure whether or not they are true. ...

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The absent parent may have never been a part of the family, as is my story with both my upbringing and my current situation. ... For me the choice (if I actually had one) to involve the father would, in my opinion, bring an additional pile of stress and emotional strife to my plate and I can only imagine how my daughters would be different if that were the case. ... I wondered throughout the years why my father was not in my life. ... When a father is not present in the home, it can create social problems. ... For fear of this being the case with my daughters, I strive to find balance in my pa...

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MY LIFE STORY By Margaret Christia Newberry Herbert My Mother, Margaret Lular Bass Newberry, told me this following things as I grew up. ... As I don't remember my Father. ... He was the father of 11 children. ... You see, we grew up without a father. ... Anyway one day we were washing clothes, scrubbing them on a rub board, when he decided to go visit one of his married daughters and sped the night, Mama decided she'd go too. ...

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Therefore, to understand the pieces of the puzzle it is vital to analyze Roberts relationship with his mother, his sister and his father. ... Ross is portrayed as an adamant woman in the beginning of The Wars, yet as the story progresses, her firmness is broken by various tragedies. ... Ross had mourned for years over the sudden death of her brother and her father, now she had lost a daughter and was going to lose a son. ... Ross comes across as being envious of her son and daughter's relationship because Robert and Rowena had a relationship where Robert was like a parent (guardian) to Ro...

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Frank was able to support himself and help his family, probably once his father was out of his life, continually bring him further and further into poverty, the story of his life. ... Both our fathers were never there to support us. ... Frank strives to gain his freedom from poverty, from his father, from Ireland. ... Malachy, Frank's father, never acquires freedom from his problem and it serves him right. ... Frank watches his father melt away into nothing, and he knew that was not what he wanted in his life. ...

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His father is the link, or the connection, to his psychological state. The narrator thinks highly of his father and does not want to disappoint him in any way. ... The narrator tries to explain to the reader the huge influence his father has on him and how his father's attributes of modesty increases his respect and perspective of him. ... His psychological state and his behaviour revolves around his wife throughout this novel, which is quite easy to notice as the story progresses. ... The protagonist cannot believe that his wife is capable of such a terrifying act and seizes to believe i...

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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water is a story of three generations of women. ... Ida's father, Lecon refused the offer because he was too proud and felt that people would talk if he allowed her to do this. ... This upset Ida's father very much and he started working even more so he could be away from home and became dependant on alcohol. ... Many years later both her mother and father passed away. ... Although, all that is mentioned in the story was that Ida was very nave, she seemed to be a very trusting girl and became very attached to Clara right away. ...

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"8 The father think that he has fulfilled his mission while he scatters his boys everywhere. ... He simultaneously functioned as a social critic and moral guide as he believes that: The playwright must dig at the roots of sickness today as he feels it the death of the old God, the failure of science, and materialism to give any satisfying new one for the surviving primitive religious instinct to find meaning for life.17 It must be noted that the deepest emotional drive in O'Neill‟s plays is usually based on the father-son, father-daughter and mother-son relationship. To briefly c...

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Summary - This is the story of two families who have been neighbours for a long time. ... The neighbouring family is the Deevers; Steve Deever, his wife, his son George and his daughter Ann. ... He was visiting his father in prison. ... Keller had to make up that story about being sick to cover up for his crime. ... Chris would not take his father to jail. ...

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An extended family includes the core group of males, which are a grandfather, adult sons and sons" sons, their wives, and their unmarried daughters. ... You could not have an extended family that included servants, apprentices, and other non-kinfolk in a house that measured twenty feet by twenty feet and raised only a story and a half. ... The head of the family was mostly the father. ... For example, while boys were off with their fathers, girls would stay home with their mothers, mostly helping out with the cooking, sewing and laundering. Some daughters, however, went in to the services of f...

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The story Hard Times is set in an imaginary town by the name of Coketown. ... Bounderby go to Sissy's house to tell her father that he should pull her out of school. ... He tells her that there father and Mr. ... In the morning Louisa goes to see her father. ... Her father said " I-really-cannot take upon myself to say." ...

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In the case of Alzheimer's, wives and daughters provide the bulk of care. ... As an example of one simple support group system which illustrates the strain on family members, we examine some stories offered at a web site that are intended to make family members feel they are not alone. In one story, a 15 year old girl whose grandmother has Alzheimer's, describing her experiences. She illustrates that her grandmother lives with the girl's father: "My dad isn't the best person to be living with my grandma in her condition because he doesn't care about anybody but ...

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This includes Lory Cahn whose father pulled her out of the train widow as it was leaving the station. She was devastated that she was not on the train but her father was so happy that she was with him again. ... She uses the word 'bereavement' but listening to the survivors stories it was more like the children forsaken their German culture and language. ...

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