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The phrase "able to father" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing someone's capability to become a parent or to sire children.
Example: "Despite his young age, he felt ready and able to father a child."
Alternatives: "capable of fathering" or "qualified to be a father."
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It remains to be seen whether he will ever be able to father children.
They were also able to father normal offspring, after having sperm extracted from their testes and injected into female eggs.
In a way, being able to father a child was a bigger issue than whether or not he could walk again.
"The only way I found out [what had happened], was when an employee on Ward 7 told me I wouldn't be able to father children".
They were also able to father normal offspring, when their sperm was extracted straight from the testes and injected into female eggs.
The court noted that the man was already a father; the couple had a daughter by natural means six months before divorcing and he remained biologically able to father other children.
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And once Dennis had left I was able to secure Father's evenings for myself.
To be able to predict father absence effects on menarche in a particular population, both the level of resource access and the role of the father need to be taken into account.
Hereby we were able to recruit fathers as well.
This might be explained by the fact that men are able to become fathers later in life than women, and there has been less research into male factors than into those relating to females.
M. B. is already a father and is able to become a father to additional children, whether through natural procreation or further in vitro fertilization.
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