parental authority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofparentalandauthority
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parental
adjective
uk/pəˈren.təl/us/pəˈren.t̬əl/
relating to parents or to being ...
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authority
noun
uk/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition ofparentalandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Parentalauthoritywas as strong in the city as in the country.
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Through these gendered patterns of participation, the parents create connection with their daughter and negotiate theirparentalauthoritywith their daughter and with each other.
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On the whole, one would conclude that respect forparentalauthorityis important in both cultural regions.
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In elopement cases, complainants similarly focused their testimony on two selected topics : bridewealth andparentalauthorityin making marriages.
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The possibility of employment outside the home lowered women's probability of marrying because it underminedparentalauthority.
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The marriage regulations set out in domain law reveal how the local power-holder tried to suppressparentalauthorityand the prerogatives of the household head.
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Parental involvement may be used to renegotiate the balance ofparentalauthority.
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Parents offer children monetary rewards for complying with their rules + how does this use ofparentalauthorityaffect a child's character?
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In this respect the agency of youth could come into conflict with various degrees ofparentalauthority.
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How does he createparentalauthorityand connection, and what parental identity does he create?
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Marriage discipline, family strategies,parentalauthority, and individual choices have been the most debated issues.
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Religious conservatives also argue thatparentalauthoritywill be undermined by granting children rights.
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Its paradigm isparentalauthority, and for some time it cast a long shadow over theories of governance and legitimacy.
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Through these gendered patterns of participation, the parents create gendered parental identities and negotiate theirparentalauthoritywith their daughter and with each other.
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Parentalauthorityover children must do the same thing.
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He therefore argued that such a conflict ofparentalauthorityneed not be tolerated without an appropriate parliamentary ruling, that is, a statutory law as opposed to a ministerial decree.
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Respect forparentalauthorityis not absolute.
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Parentalauthorityis not implicated.
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Engels's own desanctication ofparentalauthorityis quintessential to modernity in some ways.
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