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father-figure

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Noun1.father-figure - a man (often a powerful or influential man) who arouses emotions usually felt for your real father and with whom you identify psychologically
adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
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While Head Start itself has for many years encouraged father or father-figure involvement in both the program and in the lives of their children (Head Start Information and Publication Center, 2001; Administration for Children, Youth and Families, 2000), Early Head Start, serving families with children under age three since 1996, has explicitly emphasized support, goal-setting, and education for fathers under the umbrella of its two-generation (child and parent) services (U.
Preferences and perceptions about getting support expressed by ... by Boller, Kimberly / Fathering
On a non-stop party flight to Sydney, we manage to get Herman into a un-named clothing company private party held on the very gay main street of Sydney, where he was assigned to be very profesional and a very straight father-figure.
Skate for money, die for fame by Dollin, Dustin / Thrasher
Hertzberger is the pre-eminent father-figure of contemporary Dutch architecture.
SPACE AND THE ARCHITECT: LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE 2 by MOSTAFAV, MOHSEN / The Architectural Review
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