parental affection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofparentalandaffection
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parental
adjective
uk/pəˈren.təl/us/pəˈren.t̬əl/
relating to parents or to being ...
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affection
noun
uk/əˈfek.ʃən/us/əˈfek.ʃən/
a feeling of liking for a person ...
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(Definition ofparentalandaffectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Consequently, parent substitutes may not easily develop genuineparentalaffectionfor their wards.
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The parents are able to indulge theirparentalaffectionand give their children things today which many of us never saw in our own childhood.
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I would not say that it was so much the lack of parental responsibility as the lack ofparentalaffection.
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There are, unfortunately, cases where thisparentalaffectiondoes not exist.
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A local authority can never be a substitute for parents or forparentalaffectionor for discipline in the home or for firmness of purpose.
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Surely this is just the time when communications within the family unit are vital, whenparentalaffection, guidance, sympathy and practical help are urgently needed.
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She put him in a nursery school as soon as she could, and throughout his early life he did not have sufficientparentalaffectionand discipline.
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One direct consequence of the parents' migration is the fact that the child is deprived ofparentalaffection and the necessary supervision of his or her normal development.
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It requires an exceptionally fine institution to make up for family life andparentalaffection, and frequently the homes from which these children are taken are perfectly good homes.
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To my mind, the children would be no worse off if the marriage were then legally dissolved, because one parent has already been shown to be lacking inparentalaffection.
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There may be inequality, not necessarily in a material sense but in moral example and spiritual condition or in terms of experience of adult wisdom andparentalaffection.
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For example, in multiple-child families, academic achievement often serves as one of several arenas in which siblings compete forparentalaffectionand other resources.
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Because the effect is amplified, it is reasoned that the religiousness of the home has an effect on the influence ofparentalaffectionof delinquency trajectories.
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