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  • For me the biggest news of this episode was that Jim Parsons could handle the drama (e.g. the mother-father contretemps) as well as the comedy.

    'Big Bang Theory': Everybody's fighting! | EW.com 2009

  • Don Mateo recited a benediction, invoking the names Dark Jaguar and Macaw House, the first mother-father pair of daykeepers, and of White Sparkstriker, who had brought the knowledge to our branch of the World Tree.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • Don Mateo recited a benediction, invoking the names Dark Jaguar and Macaw House, the first mother-father pair of daykeepers, and of White Sparkstriker, who had brought the knowledge to our branch of the World Tree.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • In so doing, they countered the traditional view that men should bring home at least half the family income and women should be the primary child rearers -- and created a new model in which the traditional mother-father roles are reversed.

    There's No Right Way To Be A Mom 2010

  • In so doing, they countered the traditional view that men should bring home at least half the family income and women should be the primary child rearers -- and created a new model in which the traditional mother-father roles are reversed.

    There's No Right Way To Be A Mom 2010

  • At least polygamy, for all its ugly defects, is an attempt to secure stable mother-father families for children.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Renee 2009

  • Suleman is trying to frame her decision as an "unconventional" lifestyle choice, daring to infer that most parents, the so-called stable kind consisting of a traditional mother-father dyad, aren't physically and emotionally there for their children.

    Beth Kohl: Love Can't Buy You Money 2009

  • At least polygamy, for all its ugly defects, is an attempt to secure stable mother-father families for children.

    Polygamy is not worse than gay marriage, it is better Renee 2009

  • "Societies privilege heterosexual marriage principally because it [creates] enduring mother-father child-raising units," says David Blankenhorn of the Institute for American Values.

    For Better Or For Worse 2008

  • Apparently, I revealed the underlying mother-father child raising symmetry which they had completely failed to see in our symmetry-broken society.

    Spontaneous Social Symmetry Breaking Sean 2008

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