Fatherhood

Having never married, he experienced fatherhood vicariously through his nieces and nephews.

Tom had no conception of what fatherhood entailed.

Yanni prepared for fatherhood.

Yanni ended all that partying and prepared for fatherhood.

Marriage and family, motherhood, fatherhood and childhood are protected by the state.

He didn't have the glory of fatherhood, but he was like a second father to his siblings.