Sentence examples for parental figures from inspiring English sources

Parental figures are parents or other adult people replacing parents during early childhood.

Freud held that the patient's emotional attachment to the analyst represented a transference of the patient's relationship to parents or important parental figures.

Two nieces were interviewed as adult children because they lived with and considered target parents to be parental figures.

When a young child goes through her parents' divorce, there are always moving parts that necessitate two parental figures being in attendance.

So both the parental figures in "Washington Square" are bereaved.

I think writers have to be careful not to over-rely on absent parental figures, however.

Sarah and, to some extent, Ali are looking for parental figures in their romantic partners.

As the parental figures of this makeshift family, Bronagh and Patrick are intermittently hit by their consciences.

No wonder that their calls for social justice return to the talisman of safety and care of parental figures.

John McCain believes that in those situations that caring parental figures are better for the child than the alternative".

Coddled by Ko, she seems younger than her years, an adolescent struggling to find herself in a society run by apparently benign parental figures.