Definition: 1. Connected with a parent or parents. 2. Designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced. 3. Relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent.
Use 'parental' in a sentence:
1. As Yale law professor Anne Alstott argues, justifying parental support depends on defining the family as a social good that, in some sense, society must pay for.
2. However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their "adult" children.
3. promote parental involvement.
4. Mothers have long known that their home workload was just as heavy as paid work. Now, the new study has shown that if they were paid for their parental labours, they would earn as much as £ 172,000 a year.
5. Parental love is deep and true.
6. The U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support, according to a 2007 study.
7. It doesn't include the temptations to run from society or make an excuse to avoid one's obligations—such as life-saving medical work or the parental obligation to buy groceries.
8. For example, if a couple have a child and then separate, and the man has parental rights, he is entitled to have the child's DNA analyzed without getting consent from either the child or mother.
9. For a few of these people, college provides no satisfaction, yet because of parental or peer pressure, they cannot voluntarily leave.
10. But with many more women than men choosing to leave the workforce entirely to raise families, returning from an extended parental leave doesn't raise as many eyebrows as it does for men.
11. With many more women than men choosing to leave the workforce entirely to raise families, returning from an extended parental leave doesn't raise as many eyebrows as it does for men.
12. The law also includes a provision addressing parental leave, making it clear that support will be given to regions exercising the practice.
13. They could even offer paid parental leave.
14. In general, about 20% of parental involvement was positive, about 45% negative and the rest statistically insignificant.
15. He blamed lack of parental control for the young tearaways' behaviour.
16. But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.
17. Yet children, also fearing their parents' punishment and the loss of parental love, come to repress most aggressive impulses.
18. Males contribute to parental care in fewer than five percent of all mammalian species.
19. He encourages parental involvement in the running of school.
20. Children always revolt against parental disciplines.
21. This is the unexpected and rare parental opportunity to hear more.
22. Steinberg pointed out that parental sharing on social media helps build communities, connect spread-out families, provide support and raise awareness around important social issues for which parents might be their children's only voice.
23. He grew up without much parental control.
24. Robinson assessed parental involvement performance and found one of the most damaging things a parent could do was to punish their children for poor marks.
25. Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice — though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.
26. China never use concept of parental rights in current legal system.
27. The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago.
28. Boys, of course, attract more abuse, such as beating, because, once again, parental expectations are high, and boys tend to be more energetic and difficult to control than girls.
29. Parental attitudes vary widely.
30. Parents are entitled to 13 weeks' parental leave to be taken during the first five years of a child's life.
31. It's about the ( quantifiable!) power of love. It's about the tug of family. It's about parental guilt. It's about filial rage. It's about faith. It's about doubt. It's about human glory. It's about human treachery.
32. The old curmudgeon was talking about the smothering effects of parental duty on creative lives.
33. The U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support.
34. Type a password to set or change the parental control settings.
35. Parental health is key to a healthy pregnancy.
36. These days, as studies in the U.S.show bullying on the rise and parental supervision on the decline, researchers who study bullying say that calling moms and dads is more futile than ever.
37. Given these money worries, young people may see economic benefits of moving in together as soon as possible, to get out of the parental home and to save money.
38. Now, the new study has shown that if they were paid for their parental labours, they would earn as much as＄172,000 a year.
39. For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control ； guidance and support needed to come from people of the same age and from within ．
40. A strong link was found between parental mental illness and disturbance in their children.
41. How can we prevent murderous schoolyard violence in children who have access to weapons, poor parental supervision, and a mean streak?
42. One unbreakable rule in our school is that no child can be tested without written parental permission.
43. But, and this is important, their clutch volumes matched those of birds that have only male parental care.
44. Teenagers often revolt against parental discipline.
45. Too rigid parental control fosters rebellion in children.
46. For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.
47. Parental anxieties reflect their circumstances.
48. Tiny amounts of some hormones can modify our moods and our actions, our inclination to eat or drink, our aggressiveness or submissiveness, and our reproductive and parental behavior.
49. Given parental motivation, we are optimistic about the ability of people to change.
50. This government is committed to extending parental choice in education.
51. Parents are entitled to 13 weeks' parental leave.
52. Medical treatment was sometimes given to children without parental consent.
