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She is supposed to be silent and she is supposed to accept the decisions of her father and mother and the decisions of elders, even if she does not like them.
What my father could not give to my sisters and to his daughters, I thought I must change it.
It was first suggested by Lyman Spitzer, the father of the space telescope, in 1962, and he took his inspiration from an eclipse.
Based on epidemiological data, we know that one of the causes, or one of the associations, I should say, is advanced paternal age, that is, increasing age of the father at the time of conception.
And the reason is because in certain individuals, they can actually have genetic changes or mutations that are not passed down from the mother or from the father, but actually start brand new in them, mutations that are present in the egg or the sperm at the time of conception but have not been passed down generation through generation within the family.
So in fact, at the Simons Foundation, we took 2,600 individuals that had no family history of autism, and we took that child and their mother and father and used them to try and understand what were those genes causing autism in those cases?
To do that, we actually had to comprehensively be able to look at all that genetic information and determine what those differences were between the mother, the father and the child.
Mike was driving from Petaluma to San Francisco to watch the 49ers game with his father on January 19.
Today, Kevin is a loving father and contributing member of society.
Approximately 30 years ago, when I was in oncology at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, a father and a son walked into my office and they both had their right eye missing, and as I took the history, it became apparent that the father and the son had a rare form of inherited eye tumor, retinoblastoma, and the father knew that he had passed that fate on to his son.
As a gay father, I can teach them to own what is wrong in their lives, but I believe that if I succeed in sheltering them from adversity, I will have failed as a parent.
But if seeking meaning matters more than finding meaning, the question is not whether I'd be happier for having been bullied, but whether assigning meaning to those experiences has made me a better father.
And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook.
As I witnessed my father's body being swallowed by fire, I sat by his funeral pyre and wrote.
I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote at my father's cremation.
Or perhaps your father could finagle you an apprenticeship at the age of 15.
But sometimes a father's love can be misconstrued as controlling, and conversely, the scope of his son's ambition can seem like some pie-in-the-sky fantasy.
My father did this.
And he is my aunt's fifth great-aunt's husband's father's wife's seventh great-nephew, so practically my old brother.
And on the other side of the political spectrum, George H.W. Bush, number 41, the father, he has agreed to participate, and Nick Kroll, the comedian, and Dr. Oz, and many more to come.
El-Sayyid Nosair is my father.
My father exposed me to a side of Islam that few people, including the majority of Muslims, get to see.
When it was my turn to shoot, my father helped me hold the rifle to my shoulder and explained how to aim at the target about 30 yards off.
Like father, like son.
They thought they saw in me the same destruction my father was capable of.
He was in many ways a father figure to me when I was in desperate need of one.
Inspiration can often come from an unexpected place, and the fact that a Jewish comedian had done more to positively influence my worldview than my own extremist father is not lost on me.
I changed it when my family decided to end our connection with my father and start a new life.
For the victims of terrorism, I will speak out against these senseless acts and condemn my father's actions.
And with that simple fact, I stand here as proof that violence isn't inherent in one's religion or race, and the son does not have to follow the ways of his father.
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