Parental

//pəˈɹɛn.təl//

"Parental" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Young people can recognize this about romantic love, but they find it hard to accept the same fierce element in parental affection.

The hero, as a child, suffered from parental neglect.

He leaves the parental roof soon.

She had chosen to succumb to parental pressure.

In psychoanalysis, this voice is called the superego, which Freud conceived as the infantile internalizing of parental authority.

Parental discretion is advised.

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We try to set a good example providing my staff with 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

Sweden has generous parental leave and child care policies.

You’re entitled to come back to the job you had before you went on parental leave, even if someone else has been working in your role as a replacement.

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This, following Bateson, we may call the parental generation or P generation. Subsequent generations are called filial generations (abbreviated F) and their numerical order is indicated by a subscript, [...]

Nowadays there are all kinds of potential parentals besides parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, step-parents, in-laws, older siblings and cousins, and those in civil unions.

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