The first reason why fathers should have more reproductive rights is because it is unjust for a man to pay child support when he has no say over whether or not to keep the child. ... " Earlier that year, parents of Shane Seyer discovered that the woman they had hired to take care of their 13-year-old son was having intercourse with him and had became pregnant. ... The primary purpose of a paternity proceeding is to protect the welfare of the illegitimate child and, accordingly, the mother's conduct during intimacy should have no bearing on the father's duty of support nor upon ...

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Parents, realized or not, differentiate the methods of upbringing and raising their son to their daughter. ... They believe that pink is a little too feminine for their son and dolls can make him looks like a sissy. ... Parents tend to overprotect their daughter than their son. ... When a father cannot spare his time for his children, society still thinks that it is okay because the father is already tired of his job. ... Later, if the children do mischievous thing, it is the mother who got the blame for she cannot teach the children well; not the father. ...

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Under the laws pertaining to "Of Succession- woman take clear inferiority to man in terms of inheritance, "Among Burgundians we wish it to be observed that if anyone does not leave a son, let a daughter succeed to the inheritance of the father and mother in place of the son."" ("Of Succession,"" 108) Only if there is not a son, can a daughter take full inheritance. Even if there is a son and daughter, the inheritance is not always split equally, "If moreover she has but one brother, let not half, but a third part go to her on the condition that, after the death of her who is a women and a nun...

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She loves her father and stays with his family to be near him, but she is forcibly married off to a shoemaker. ... To him having a son means he would be immortalized as his name would be carried on to other generations. Based on the interpretation provided by Al-Hibri, a Middle Eastern feminist, the need to have a son is great because it is believed that through the son the family name would be carried on in future generations. ... Usually she only is allowed to take part in the immortalization of the male ancestors of her husband through birth of a son. ... Cheryl Benard highlights how the i...

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Wayne and his father never really had a good relationship, and Wayne viewed this transition like he was loosing his father for good. He felt like it would take away any chance of his father and him ever having a relationship. ... Roy's transition actually ends up bringing the father and son closer together, and makes Wayne a more open minded and accepting person. In my opinion, the most dramatic portrayal of gender stereotypes came from Roy's father. ... His father always wanted to have a boy to hand the farm over to, and Roy just wasn't that boy. ...

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She wanted to work outside with her father doing the work that she deemed important. ... This shows how the parents were more concerned with their son and that he could do no wrong. ... My father came, my mother came, my father went up the ladder talking very quietly and brought Laird down under his arm, at which my mother leaned against the ladder and began to cry. ... The narrators father instructed her to run and close the gate. ... At dinner later that night Laird told her father that she had let the horse out and her father didn't get upset, realizing she was becoming her female rol...

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Many poorer Asian families think that having a son is more helpful than a daughter. Not only will their sons preserve the family name, but also the poor often say that men are more intelligent than women. Even many of the educated classes put higher expectations on their sons than on their daughters. ... The mother comforts children when they are hurt, gives a birthday party for the father, or does the Christmas shopping. ... The father provides income for the family, deals with financial matters, and makes the major household decisions. ...

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As a young girl, the father would be their legal guardian until they were married, when this would happen, the husband would take over that role. If the women were widowed or divorced and they had no sons, then they would go back to their original guardian, but if they did then they could be place under the guardian ship of their own son. "When a woman was married she passes guardian ship of her father into that of her husband. ... Women, to men were usually just seen as a means of producing children, more importantly a son. ...

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She would then pass on her father's inheritance to her spouse. ... She is thought of as a terrible monster, but shows she has great compassion for her son by vowing to avenge her son's death. ... Her father sent her overseas to marry a King and the king tamed her and groomed her into an ideal queen. ...

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She was a part of a prestigious, "major family network of Boston's South Shore"(Akers 3) and her father was a Congregational minister in a society that held its clergy in highest regard. ... Critics also accused her of unpatriotic lavishness in her entertaining while after her son Willie's death in 1862, they criticized her of avoidance of her social duties. ... Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. ... (Baker 114) And while Abigail Adams concerned herself ab...

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This is spoken to quite clearly when Jeremy Goldberg stated that marriages "would be a business transaction in which the girl was merely chattel transferred from the patriarchal authority of her father to her husband " (Goldberg 26). ... However, her sons " another example of how low even the writers of the time thought of women " saves her candidacy by bringing aboard the ark. ... As a youthful, incredibly beautiful girl working for her father, Griselda lives a life of service. She is arranged to marry the lord of the region she lives in by her father and the lord himself, Walter....

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We are introduced to Jim Burden's grandmother while she is being sentimental over Jim's deceased father. ... Shimerda is the money-hungry, dignified woman, whose hopes revolve around the moneymaking abilities of her eldest son. ... Until after the death of Antonia's father, the change that takes place between Jim and her is always Jim as the educated, protective instructor and she as the attentive, admiring audience. ... The relationship parallels her mother's relationship to her father. ... These girls came to America with their families to help out on their father&#x...

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In Oedipus the King, Othello, Tartuffe, The Father and even the absence of women in Waiting for Godot all have an impact in the story and on the audience. ... Jocasta is not really weak-minded, but due to her submissive nature she was a victim, a victim to the oracle, a victim to her husband, and a victim in the end to her son and herself. ... She is almost like a child vying for a father's affections in every aspect of her actions towards Iago. ... Mariane plays the daughter of Elmire in Tartuffe; she is a submissive girl willing to do whatever it takes to please her father even if it...

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The part my son remembers the most from Aladdin is when the Genie, and Aladdin were fighting off the evil Jafar to save the Princess Jasmine. ... Her father was to go, but he was ill, and in order for her father to save face, she posed as a son. ...

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In a dying man's last few minutes, the only advice he can think of giving his nine-year-old son is to be shallow. ... These two statements are clearly shallow and egotistical because the father is sending a message to marry someone because they are hot, not because they are compatible or in love with each other which is how it is supposed to be. ... Hal spends his entire life trying to live up to his fathers shallow standards. He lives his every day life the way his father told him to when he was a young boy. ...

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Aristotle argued the authority of husband and father is the necessity for the household management. ... In the same way, she claimed that " If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then thaught the natürel sciences, they would learn as throughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons....

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Likewise in the chapter "No Name Woman ", Kingston explains that her mother says, "We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born " (Kingston 3). ... Not only is she the only daughter, but her father acts as if she is not of any importance, especially since she takes the opportunity to pursue a career in writing instead of being a mother. She battles to reconcile her lifelong goal of receiving her father's approval with her passion, writing. In the end, this goal is achieved, and her father finally recognizes that she is just as important as his sons...

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The way Milkman and Hagar met was when Guitar who is Milkman's older friend, took Milkman to visit Pilate Dead's home who is a sister to Macon Dead II (Milkman's father). ... She told him of when she and his dad were little kids he was a nice boy, and he saved her life twice, once when her father died and they were stuck in the woods. Milkman's father told Milkman not to trust Pilate and that she was a snake. ... If his parents could not talk to their son about their misery, whom can they talk to, and if Hagar cannot become distraught over being dishearten like a used piec...

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Her father, Egeus, has dragged Hermia off to Theseus's court in a desperate attempt to compel his daughter to comply with his wish that she marry Demetrius, rather than her beloved, Lysander. ... What is remarkable about Hermia's response to both her father and to Theseus is that it is impassioned but logical, convincing but calm. ... In fact, her most strict critic is her own son, Hamlet, who finds it utterly despicable that his mother pursues his own uncle for a romantic relationship after her husband's death. ...

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In the mid-Victorian period women have been represented in many different ways, using various forms of literature, for example through poetry, novels, and newspaper articles and also in visual form through paintings and etchings, they show how women were represented, how fathers, husbands and society treated them in general. ... In paragraph 13 Ruskin then goes on to represent the woman as a "Queen" in her household, to rule in her own home and to care for, "feed and clothe" and to morally guide, "direct and teach" her husband and sons. ... Ruskin's tone of voice changes from didactic to...

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In the first chapter, Mattie Michael, she refused to reveal the name of her unborn child's father to her parents, so to as refuge she lives with her friend, etta mae. ... But mattie then loses the house when her son, Basil, jumped bail after Mattie used their home as collateral for his bond. ... she has a live-in boyfriend, Eugene, and they have a child, Serena. shehas dreams of a family and of Eugene one day becoming a wonderful husband as well as a loving father. ... Questions I should ask about the novel 1. why does Mattie leave without telling basil's father that ...

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He has caught a big fish and is excited to show his father the fish. ... His parent's approval and love mean so much to him, but they are arguing constantly and he catches this huge fish that he thinks will make his father so proud of him, but they just shun him away. ... Johnson on the other hand, in "Jesus" Son", looks at the separation of reality and super reality. ...

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Women in previous centuries were expected to depend on their husbands or fathers for everything they needed, and as I said before were supposed to remain involved only in household affairs. ... Eliza Lucas, for instance ("Eliza Lucas Pinckney"), took over her father's plantation when he left for the West Indies and was perfectly capable of undertaking this task. ... * Because public- spirited mothers make public- spirited sons...

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Rome was founded as a patriarchal society, women were the property of their fathers later their husbands. ... A father could sell his daughters into marriages and only a husband had the right to seek divorce. ... Metzger also mentioned Jesus called a woman he cured the daughter of Abraham, thus implying that she had equal status with sons of Abraham (818). ...

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As small girls in our father's house, we live the most delightful life, because ignorance keeps children happy. ... When sons were born, their names were recorded with their father's and their grandfather's name as documentation of their Athenian citizenship. ...

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