Sentence examples for reasonable parent from inspiring English sources

(Niru's mother, an altogether more supple and reasonable parent, tends to dissolve into the background).

When mother and father cannot agree, the court reluctantly assumes the role of the "judicial reasonable parent".

If the act raises the question of what a definition of welfare should be, then a judge ought to be able to provide one in the role of "judicial reasonable parent".

"I kept talking to him and asking him questions," said Mr. Rivera, whose daughter was in the fifth grade with John at Public School 39. "I did what any reasonable parent would do".

While I assume all present clinicians knew the likely outcome, there is a common belief among doctors that you bolster patient (or surrogate) autonomy through the "reasonable parent" standard.

In my more than 40 years in schools I noticed that considerate, respectful, reasonable parents generally have children with the same attributes.

As an indictment of a particular American way of life -- Henry and Margaret are self-consciously reasonable parents, and the entire family stays busy with industrious activities -- "How the Light Gets In" works best not when Lou dismisses other characters but when the characters are allowed to incriminate themselves.

Now, of course, your mileage is going to vary depending on whether any given school district has a critical mass of stupid parents and administrators or a critical mass of reasonable parents and administrators, and that's too bad.

This law is very well meaning, in the sense that every reasonable, rational parent of any race, creed or color, would want their child to be able to read and write before they graduate from high-school.

Could it not be a simple matter to reach a reasonable, responsible parenting agreement – especially if that entails the parents doing what they had been doing perfectly well for years before separation?

But a huge reason I've done all right is that because our rent was reasonable, my parents could afford school trips and books and pens and a computer.