The epidemic might have been even worse had it not been for the father of the actress Glenn Close.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

In some cases the child takes the mother's surname as a middle name and the father's name as the family name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Eight more years passed, Calvin,the father and Everett, the son still had nothing to say to each other.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

The tests sometimes reunite separated families and settle questions about who is the father of a child.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

But the father lost his money in the great economic Depression in the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

The father of the family has to be respected as a figure of great strength.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

The father honks the horn just as the boy crosses in front of their car.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

A leading American religious thinker of that time called Doctor Spock "the father of permissiveness."

VOA: special.2009.03.15

The father is an efficiency expert, an expert in doing things better and faster.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

The father of three was even married for a time to Elvis Presley's daughter.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

But this morning the father went to work without even talking to his son.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

The father or mother may hit the ceiling when they see the low grades.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

The father of this idea of "scientific management" was an engineer, Frederick Taylor.

VOA: special.2010.12.23

Hours later, Tariq Jahan, the father of twenty-one-year-old victim Haroon Jahan,appealed for calm.

VOA: special.2011.08.13