Sentence examples for parental figure from inspiring English sources

About 80percentt of these children are killed by a parent or parental figure.

We select all persons aged 15 to 20 years for simplicity, referring to this group as "adolescents"—living with at least one parent, where "parent" means the parental figure of the household in which the adolescent (or young adult) resides, and may refer to a natural, adoptive, step, or foster parent or a parent's de facto partner.

She adds how these feelings may be intensified "if there were family difficulties or only one parent in the household," as the student may have been a significant support to a parent or parents, and been a parental figure to younger siblings.

Batman's relationship with Alfred is strained; the butler, an overbearing parental figure, reminds him of his parents' deaths and Alfred sees Batman as a spoiled child squandering his inheritance on a vigilante crusade.

The loss of various resources, like the absence of one of the parents or the loss of a parental figure, usually the father, can explain the negative implications of divorce.

Whilst this may seem like an obvious observation, further research is required to see the extent to which children are given alcohol by the parental figure or whether alcohol is obtained from the parents without parental knowledge (for example, theft of alcohol stored in the family home).

Children who had never lived with or interacted with a second parent, or no longer had meaningful contact with a second parental figure, were not included.

The theory is that the group re-creates the family unit-that the therapist becomes a parental figure, and that members form transference relationships with the group parent & group siblings which will reactivate old neurotic patterns, subject them to analysis, & ultimately eradicate them.

You might have to mourn the loss of a parental figure in your life or your expectations of what a parent should be.

Cyrus, who recently called off his divorce from wife Tish, has also been criticized for trying to be Miley's friend rather than a parental figure--has he changed his tune?

This treatment was effective in killing E. coli but had no action on mutants BABΔolsB or BABΔolsA or on BAB-parental (Figure 2).