The phrase "fathered by" is correct and acceptable in written English.
It is usually used when someone is referring to the father of another person. For example: The great musician was fathered by a renowned composer.
In fact for every muon fathered by a neutrino, IceCube sees a million muons fathered by cosmic rays.
It is feared that as many as 200 children may have been fathered by Karbaat.
He later learns that his brother was fathered by another man.
WHY are the number of children fathered by sperm donors growing?
Nevertheless, Rhea bore the twins Romulus and Remus, fathered by the war god Mars.
This doesn't prove that Eston, let alone Sally Hemings's other children, were fathered by Thomas Jefferson.
At the end Venus holds a baby presumably fathered by Tannhäuser.
Her conclusion: that she was fathered by our wartime Prime Minister's only son, Randolph.
The legendary magician Merlin was said to have been fathered by an incubus.
They were fathered by her third husband but adopted by her second".
Both of her cubs were fathered by the zoo's 15-year-old male, Tian Tian.
