Sentence examples for proper parent from inspiring English sources

He thinks they might now try to prove my lifestyle means I am not able to be a proper parent".

She described the feeling of never having felt like a proper parent as a result of giving up her son.

She would run through all the 70-odd names in her extended family, and then try to match the children with the proper parent.

Usher's lawyers said earlier this month that Foster was "incapable of being a proper parent" to the boys, adding that she "does not have the emotional stability to or capacity to bond with them, and therefore she is handicapped".

Children usually suffer scald burns which although serious are usually not life threatening and can be more easily dealt as outpatients with the proper parent education and support.

They are generally not spanking their child because they want to do it, or enjoy it, but because they feel obligated to teach them to behave normatively, or to maintain and reinforce the proper parent-child hierarchy.

"We're not advocating this for children whose primary experience has been proper parenting," Lambsharkssen stresses.

David Cameron blamed "a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing, a lack of proper ethics, a lack of proper morals".

And if I managed that, how to avoid the law while finding a way to deliver him to his proper parents?

They "found their own gaunt, exhausted, prematurely aged, grieving mothers, endlessly rehearsing the past and incapable of being proper parents again, infinitely troubling".

Peter Sarsgaard is David, the older man who introduces her to a world of art auctions and Champagne while appealing to the pretensions of her proper parents (Cara Seymour and Alfred Molina).