0 present participle of father
1 to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant:
He's fathered three children.
Only one comparison (in men) indicated a significantly greater effect for fathering.
Conversely, highly negative infants appear to become less inhibited when they experience limited positive and more negative fathering.
Both the range and the depth of their fathering practices made them highly involved fathers.
These consequences may include being stigmatized in their community and alienating a long-term mate who contributes fathering and other valued resources to the family.
I wanted its intimacy, a kind of fathering to come ' ' (285-86).
No comparisons showed a greater effect of fathering.
This makes it possible to interpret the nature of fathering practices in this sample as rather traditional.
For women fertility was defined as having one or more live births and for men fathering a child.
