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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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Babat acknowledges the existence of rivals who might try to challenge the powers and good intentions of the intended nurturer of fish.

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While Passno denied that she wants women to stop working outside the home, she insisted that "our Creator God designed a woman to want to take care of children, to provide a good home, to be a nurturer.

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Men who do remain in their marriages and in their children's lives are apparently becoming better nurturers, and the authors believe that "men who actively participate in raising their children may be more reluctant to leave marriage.

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But, it's instructive to note that quite a number of them eventually take an additional step forward, and feel the need to become animal advocates, protectors, nurturers, whisperers, etc.

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani warned that the terrorists who are trained in certain states to join their counterparts in Syria will one day backfire on their nurturers.

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Our nods to our mothers and other nurturers on this day in May never measure up.

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She finds that an increasing number of men have recognized the tensions created by their own fathers' putting careers first, but also finds that new gender dynamics (and the attendant emotional, community moral responsibilities) has freed men to be nurturers and to contribute substantially in terms of time and quality to the rearing of their own children.