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NURTURE. The act of taking care of children and educating them: the right to the nurture of children generally belongs to the father till the child shall arrive at the age of fourteen years, and not longer. Till then, he is guardian by nurture. Co. Litt. 38 b. But in special cases the mother will be preferred to the father; 5 Binn. R. 520; 2 S. & R. 174; and after the death of the father, the mother is guardian by nurture. Fl. 1. 1, c. 6; Com. Dig. Guardian, D. |
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But along with that, there has to be someone at a child's side who is really an advocate, a nurturer, a positive role model, and also promises to come back and check on them next week. 5th Annual Black Midwives and Healers Conference "Rising from the Ashes; The Resurrection of a Community: Listener, Healer, Nurturer. She has indeed gone to him softly, as an ally and a woman--perhaps a sexually inviting woman--as a lover, a hiding place, a nurturer, as a womb and a tent. |
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