0 past simple and past participle of father
1 to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant:
He's fathered three children.
A score of 0 on this variable indicated that the study member had not yet given birth or fathered a child by age 21 years.
The student who fathered a child could, and almost certainly did, continue his studies.
At age 25, sample members were asked if they had ever given birth to, or fathered a child.
The average age at which study members first gave birth or fathered a child was 18.7 years.
The 29 resistant fish had been fathered by 10 different males, which had median : 3, range : 1- 6 resistant offspring.
But when a poem proves as troublesome as this, perhaps we need to listen out for the incomprehensible cry of the child that fathered it.
He eventually fathered six children.
It is further concerned with a woman's unwillingness to carry a child which is the result of a temporary attachment, or fathered by a man she no longer loves.
